Comment Brazil (Score 1) 251
The infocalypse is a bit like Brazil. (paraphrased quote: "Brazil is and always will be the country of the future.") It's the underachiever of the doomsday prophesies.
The nature of the exponential growth of tech is that tech begets tech. Similarly, tech helps us to deal with tech. People had a hard time dealing with the industrial revolution, which had a much slower pace. How can it be that we are managing to keep up with the extraordinarily fast paced information revolution? I believe that socialization has changed to better equip us to deal with change, and in addition that much of the tech we have been creating helps us to filter information. Information technologies may in fact be a tremendous boon to us as we face later revolutions. We will have the tools to deal with an ever increasing amount of information.
The nature of the exponential growth of tech is that tech begets tech. Similarly, tech helps us to deal with tech. People had a hard time dealing with the industrial revolution, which had a much slower pace. How can it be that we are managing to keep up with the extraordinarily fast paced information revolution? I believe that socialization has changed to better equip us to deal with change, and in addition that much of the tech we have been creating helps us to filter information. Information technologies may in fact be a tremendous boon to us as we face later revolutions. We will have the tools to deal with an ever increasing amount of information.
