There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it. What makes this paradoxical is that the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today does not empower us or make us more cognitively autonomous. Rather, it renders us more dependent on other people’s judgments and evaluations of the information with which we are faced.
Così si apre l’articolo di Gloria Origgi su Fast Company che esamina uno dei mali principali dell’odierna società (dell’informazione). Una lettura da 5 minuti, che ti consiglio.
Ottimo pezzo, grazie. La chiosa finale è da incorniciare.
P.S. auguri per la nuova moto 🙂