The Owl Has Flown

In his essay, Birkets suggests that there is just way to much information out there, and people do not spend enough time analyzing it all. He thinks that this “explosion” of data is just too much. He goes on to say that since there is so much information that we cant take the time to sit down and really analyze it all and really get all the information we need out of what is being given. He believes that through the renaissance period that the depth is being destroyed. That there is just not enough time to go through everything it’s not possible. He also goes on to talk about how now day’s people just skim through things just seeing a couple words on the page and trying to make sense of them. He basically is saying that the world today thinks that if you can’t get the information fast enough that it just doesn’t mean anything.