Looking For The Needles In The Haystacks

We’re rich in data – but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it.  Ironically, an excess of information resists analysis and comprehension in much the same way a lack of it does.  As a result, the more that new technology floods our world with complex information, the more we end up calling on a much older field of human endeavor, one that has always been devoted to making complexity comprehensible and extracting meaning from chaos, namely, art.  Particularly the visual arts.
—    Lev Grossman
From the article:  “What’s this all about?“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine;  dtd:  6 – 13 July 2015
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