Modernity needs the lightbulb, not the candle

Already in the 1990, when Tim Berners Lee was still only writing the code for the World Wide Web, the NYU researcher in communication Neil Postman was warning us that our not thought through handling of information, combined with the extensive volumes that were already there, brought us to a situation where our very sense of meaning is at stake. What might be an alternative?

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 the resulting information be like? In what way, and by whom, would it be created?

To be continued...

The Modernity ideogram depicts our civilization as a bus, and our way of handling information as its candle headlights.