observation of modern day information

"a new problem never experienced before: information glut, information incoherence, information meaninglessness...We have transformed information into a form of garbage, and ourselves into garbage collectors. Like the sorcerer's apprentice, we are awash in information without even a broom to help us get rid of it. Information comes...at high speeds, severed from import and meaning. And there is no loom to weave it all into fabric. No transcendent narratives to provide us with moral guidance, social purpose, intellectual economy. No stories to tell us what we need to know, and what we do not need to know."

-Neil Postman, chair of the Department of Culture and Communications at NYU