Some have gone so far as to call it a revolution. Nations, businesses, even individuals who are slow to jump on this bandwagon face having their prosperity and their very existence put in doubt. For this reason, investing enormous amounts in network hardware and information-technology equipment of even slightly higher performance capability is seen as normal. Home use of the internet is becoming popular, and there are plans to teach elementary school children how to use computers.
People have delirious, almost fevered views on the subject.
If quantity of information was really so crucial, people who do not watch television, or do not read newspapers, or do not own an encyclopaedia would have so much less ability to make synthetic judgements than people who do watch television, or read many newspapers, or do own an encyclopaedia. This is simply not the case. This is because what actually influences synthetic judgement is the substance of things, and information and substance are not the same. It seems like the press is full of school bullying incidents and violence every day. Day after day we are told the details of the incidents, and hear the opinions of the offenders, the victims and their parents, bystanders, teachers, and pundits.