Drowning in Data: How Information Abundance Corrupts the Rational Mind
The Enlightenment philosophers who championed universal knowledge could not have anticipated a world in which the sheer volume of available information would become its own form of tyranny. Modern cognitive science reveals a troubling paradox: educated individuals, confronted with excessive data, frequently make worse decisions than those operating with less. What the 18th century understood about the architecture of reason may be precisely what the digital age has forgotten.