"Individuals are forced to consider more information and opportunities
than they can effectively process. This information overload is made worse
by ‘data smog’, the proliferation of low quality information allowed by
easy publication. It leads to anxiety, stress, alienation, and potentially
dangerous errors of judgment."
Complexity and Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency
leads to decreasing control by Francis Heylighen.
Even when we’ll have much better summarizing and other meaning-making
tools than we have today, no amount of technology will give us peace of
mind when we will need it most - in the midst of rapid technological
changes which affect how we live, work, learn, and play.
To rightfully trust our capacity to learn as fast as necessitated by
the pace of changes which affect us--individuals, communities and
organizations--, we need to learn how to learn faster together.
Recommendations and pointers to resources, emailed by friends and
colleagues in our social and knowledge networks, are some of the signposts
that many professionals and managers use for navigating in today’s
fast-moving landscapes.
If none of us is as smart as all of us, then creating shared resources,
shared social and knowledge capital, is one of the smartest things we can
do.
The intent and core idea of Collaboration Campus™ is to provide a space
for mastering the arts of collaborative learning, and building valuable
social capital just by participating in the life of the campus community.
