What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
As some others have said, a well-thought-out article on the larger scale impacts of the Internet as a new medium of communication - just get past the intro.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s interesting because it puts together a number of intuitions you may already have about the upcoming western social-democratic crisis stemming from the loss of authoritative sources of information.<p>What is missing is actually ideas about what system we should collectively aim for in order to restore trust in actual truths and distrust in actual falsehoods - because of course, you can&#x27;t have a society without a shared framework for that.