“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The above is the frustration of a sailor on a becalmed ship, surrounded by salt water that he could not drink.
Perhaps one could almost say the same of the information overload we sometimes experience in our world today. The Internet, indeed our world, is awash with all kinds of information; from the stern to the downright hilarious, from the well-crafted treatise to the flippant update, there’s no limit to the avalanche of ideas out there. More worrying is the fact that ideas have consequences. Continue reading “Where’s your source?”