Cheap access to capital should drive innovation and problem-solving... why is it that “money in the 21st century simply doesn’t know what to do with itself”?
Podcasts give access to knowledge which would not otherwise have been shared, since most interesting thinkers are to busy doing things to write down most of their insights. Con: it is often hard to extract knowledge by listening. But it generates an ambient milieu which is good.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.