http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03089/169397.stm
Tales of Technology: Consider a cure for pernicious infobesity
First of a regular monthly column
Sunday, March 30, 2003
When people ask me what to do about all the information bombarding us, I
point out that information is not like bombs; it's like food. When man
developed agriculture, nobody complained about being bombarded by food, at
least until the age of vaudeville. Unless you were a confirmed
hunter-gatherer, you should have welcomed the plenty that agriculture brought.
However, agriculture had it costs. Marxists claim it induced a
reorganization of labor and created slavery. In "Guns, Germs, and Steel,"
Jared Diamond says agriculture created cities and nations that fight wars
of conquest; and that the domestication of animals brought smallpox.
(to finish this very funny article, click on the link)
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