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The internet is no omniscient library, but the parallels between Borges’ story are apparent. The web is a boundless compendium of information and data scattered across billions of pages—content, as we’ve loathed to call it. In this virtual information library, Google may be the closest thing we have to a librarian.

Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search

authoritative sources without

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The media landscape of today is oriented toward what is novel and public—

Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Nada deve escapar ao registro total da vida. Com isso, nada é narrado. Tudo é apenas mensurado.

Byung-Chul Han • A crise da narração (Portuguese Edition)

(Herbert Simon said it best: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”)

John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)

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William Weaver • The Name of the Rose

It has blurred the distinctions between categories of information—distinctions of form, register, sense, and importance—that the epistemic architecture of the analog era preserved and even accentuated. Content has collapsed, as our adoption of the drab, generic term content to refer to all forms of expression testifies. Everything now has to fit th

Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority. Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust. Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor. When proof for and agains... See more

Martin Gurri • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.