Summary of Birkerts

In his essay Sven Birkerts suggest that due to the amount of data we receive on a daily basis we have stopped seeking the truth. Birkert claims that people are so overwhelmed by the amount of information that they receive that we have stopped the ancient practice of philosophy and are know just “managing the information”. He believes that we have stopped absorbing facts and that we know just categorize them and store them with no thought into what they really mean. The reason why he thinks that we have stopped seeking the truth is that we have stopped giving the time to fully examine a topic. He says that the only times that we really go into deep thought and examine a topic is at the therapist and church. So is this a valid argument against the internet home pages with thirty plus stories or the libraries with thousands of books? Are people really getting so much information that we no longer truly know anything? I personally am not aware of any philosophers today on the scale of Socrates or Aristotle. On the other hand though is it truly better to know everything about one thing and nothing about anything else? I believe that it is better to know something about everything that way you can put things into perspective of other things. So Birkerts could be correct that we need to take the time to truly examine a topic but I believe we need to also not limit ourselves to one topic.