Information overload in the world's new problem.
A thread on why high-quality curation by trusted voices in their respective fields is the need of the hour: 👇
A thread on why high-quality curation by trusted voices in their respective fields is the need of the hour: 👇
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"Information is no longer a scarce commodity; we have more of it than we know what to do with."
—Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
"Information is no longer a scarce commodity; we have more of it than we know what to do with."
—Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
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“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
—Herbert Simon
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
—Herbert Simon
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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
—E.O. Wilson, Consilience
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
—E.O. Wilson, Consilience
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"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
—Yuval Noah
"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
—Yuval Noah
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