You need to look for what those disadvantages are if they're not obvious. Take time to digest the information you're devouring. Read an entire magazine or a book instead of taking everything in sound bites and Web news briefs. Knowing things faster doesn't make them more important. It's more important we understand the events in their context and spend time reading more thorough and slower technologies.
Variety is the spice.
Ask yourself if those talking heads on the evening news really yield any pertinent information or if your time would be better spent gathering news from less entertaining, but more informative, sources. Also, lift your head out of the sand once in awhile to look beyond your area of expertise and take in the big picture. Take a few steps back and see what the forest looks like. You can't take it with you. At least not all of it.