It's a concept that might apply to us. Change, tremendous change is all around, and acceleration faster than we know. And as the world changes, we are changed. Electronic marvels proliferate by geometric proportions. Everything moves faster and our notions of time and space adjust of necessity, whether we realize it or not.
Information is available as never before and at the touch of a finger.
Information has become an industry, a commodity to be packaged, promoted, and marketed incessantly. All hail the Web, the Internet, the Information Highway. Information isn't learning. Information isn't wisdom. It isn't common sense necessarily.