When our roads became crowded, we built more roads. When our cities became unsafe, we hired more police officers, ordered more police cars, and built more prisons. The paperless office we were all promised has gone the other way, and a return to simple information architecture can help. The book is set up differently from other books as well. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.
Contrary to Voltaire's Dr. Pangloss, we are not living in the best of all possible worlds. Not only are we overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, most of us are also hampered by an education that inadequately trains us to process it. Remembering what it's like not to know. We need to hone our ability to understand what it's like not to understand in order to communicate more clearly. Make sure you can give everyone in your audience a foothold to grab on to before launching into technical information.