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 of situations.

Suppose we handled information as we handle most other human-made things—by adapting it to the core purposes that need to be served. What would our information be like? What would our world be like?

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By depicting our civilization as a bus, and our way of handling information as a pair of candle headlights, the Modernity ideogram points to a way in which a difference can be made.