A new Pew Research Center study offers some good news I’m not so sure about. Given everything the Internet is telling us 24/7, Pew was pleasantly surprised to find out that “the large majority of Americans do not feel that information overload is a problem for them.”
Young adults and college graduates are especially likely to express positive feelings about navigating today’s information-rich world.
Political arguments I got into prior to the recent elections were marked by a near total lack of uncertainty by either party. We all had our own facts (mine none the stronger for being more factual). Does society’s rising comfort level with digital information tell us its power to inform us and delude us advance apace? More studies are needed.
