How to navigate the information overload

As humans we are endlessly called upon to make decisions based on the information we have, and we are defined by those decisions – as individuals, in business and as a society. Living in the ‘Age of Information’, one would hope that people’s decisions would be more informed and less biased, more based in fact and less on emotion. But instead it seems increasingly that the opposite is true. At what stage did the knowledge economy go from boom to bust?

The Age of Information seems to have proliferated into the ‘Age of Information Overload’, with a torrent of data being disseminated indiscriminately to vast, unknown audiences. In an increasingly connected world, we are addicted to being ‘informed’, glued to our smartphones, compelled to share our views and experiences across platforms to a faceless crowd. And through this, we have buried ourselves in half-thoughts, half-facts and fake news.

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