Attend any conference on telecommunications or computer technology, and you will be attending a celebration of innovative machinery that generates, stores and distributes more information, more conveniently, at greater speeds than ever before. To the question "What problem does that information solve?" the answer is usually "How to generate, store and distribute more information, more conveniently, at greater speeds than ever before". This is the elevation of information to a metaphysical status: information as both the means and end of human creativity. For what purpose or with what limitations, it is not for us to ask; and we are not accustomed to asking, since the problem is unprecedented. The world has never before been confronted with information glut and has hardly had time to reflect on its consequences.
Technopoly, p61.
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