Modernity needs lightbulbs, not candles

In 1990, at the time when Tim Berners Lee was writing the code for the World Wide Web, the NYU researcher in communication Neil Postman was warning us that too much information can lead to a most alarming situation—meaninglessness.

Suppose we handled information as we tend to handle most other human-made things—namely that we adapted its properties and its use to the core purposes that need to be served. Such as providing correct meaning. What would this information be like? In what way would it be created? What consequences would it have?

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