Where once, during the age of industry, the world was ruled by natural resources, it is now run on information, and while resources are finite, information seems to be infinite.
Information is power, a world currency upon which fortunes are made and lost.
And we are in a frenzy to acquire it, firm in the belief that more information means more power. But just the opposite is proving to be the case. The glut has begun to obscure the radical distinctions between data and information, between facts and knowledge. Our perception channels are short-circuiting. And the more images with which we are confronted, the more distorted is our view of the world.