Artificial inanity

Neal Stephenson describes the malaise of the Internet as Artificial Inanity – content intentionally concocted to appear as meaningful but in fact drips and exudes nothingness. Much intentionally written to confuse the reader and clog the search for real meaning, In today’s time compressed world we can literally be overwhelmed by our content choices. Not only do we need to discern the good from the bad but within the apparent good we need to ferret out the meaningful and important. We need the best of books, the best of art, the best of graphics, the best of mathematics, the best of analytics. We were able to drown in data and information without getting to knowledge, let alone insight long before the spread of broadband. In today’s era of everyone being a content provider, even a content expert and the proliferation of content voiding the pitfalls of artificial inanity is paramount.