Confused? Are you staring at a screen that lets you view almost every available scrap of information in the world, but you can’t even find a precise description of the problem you want to solve … let alone a clear, trustworthy solution?
Our cherished and time-honored habits of acquiring and communicating knowledge have stopped working for us, precisely because information has become superabundant … and less reliable at the same time. Both idiots and terrorists can — and do — publish to global audiences at no cost to publisher or reader. And you can’t tell the difference between their scribblings and those of truly wise people.
The old ways of extracting meaning from information did work. We need to rediscover and reinvent those ways to meet our new realities.
On complexity
Agam Brahma
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