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Input overload, confused cognition, haywired outcome

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English: Knowlege Spiral (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We've reached the age of information overload . Back then, many, many years ago, there is very little knowlege of anything and everything in the planet. People across the globe would learn the same thing, know the same idea, process the same information. There is universality of knowlege. That was then. Now it is completely different. There is so much knowlege learned, so many discoveries, so much information, that there already exists what we would aptly call "an information overload". There was a time when 'general information' was really general, even across the globe. It is not anymore. Even general information is so broad, that in one area or another, you don't know a lot of things. There is good and bad to what we do, or have, one way or the other. In a recent ODB devotional, it was pointed out that one man's dream of 'rebuilding the library of Alexandria ' is already coming true, t...