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There Are No More Hedgehogs
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the whe... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
S. Eliot had expressed the same ideas—much more poetically, of course—in The Rock (1934): Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. To paraphrase Neil Postman’s
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
“As we cultivate lives of distraction, we are losing our capacity to create and preserve wisdom . . . and slipping towards a line of ignorance that is paradoxically born of an abundance of information and connectivity.”
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy • The Way We're Working Isn't Working
“More and more, we’re dependent not just on other people, but on differently specialized other people. You can literally no longer understand specialists in other fields; they work to standards you’re unable to make sense of, and which in any case aren’t your standards….This is true of everyone: experts rely in just this way on experts in other fie
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