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The Problem In The 19th Century With Information Was That We Lived In A Culture Of Information Scarcity, And So Humanity Addressed That Problem Beginning With Photography And Telegraphy And The - In The 1840s. We Tried To Solve The Problem Of Overcoming The Limitations Of Space, Time, And Form.

[m]ost Of Our Daily News Is Inert, Consisting Of Information That Gives Us Something To Talk About But Cannot Lead To Any Meaningful Action. (68).

It Is Inescapable That Every Culture Must Negotiate With Technology, Whether It Does So Intelligently Or Not. A Bargain Is Struck In Which Technology Giveth And Technology Taketh Away.

As A Culture Moves From Orality To Writing To Printing To Televising, Its Ideas Of Truth Move With It.

Information Is Now A Commodity That Can Be Bought And Sold, Or Used As A Form Of Entertainment, Or Worn Like A Garment To Enhance One's Status. It Comes Indiscriminately, Directed At No One In Particular, Disconnected From Usefulness; We Are Glutted With Information, Drowning In Information, Have No Control Over It, Don't Know What To Do With It.