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WORD: information glut
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Replacing an expert or a teacher with prerecorded media sounds great at first, but, if it doesn't oversimplify the content in its standardization, it renders it useless through sheer volume. Type "karate instruction" into YouTube and more than 65,000 results appear, likely including something like Itkoff's video piece.
Although such an information glut served so quickly and globally is thrilling for its sheer scale, that scale isn't a human one. No one previews 65,000 videos to find the high-quality handful that address just what one's looking for. In fact those 65,000 might prevent access more than they facilitate it.
But volume and speed are the game today. A reference work's value is in its format and accessibility, not its quality. A definition has been reduced from a piece of prose improved iteratively through generations to a bulleted list of key information minimized for storage and tagged for cross-reference.
--- Chris Vitiello. "The endlessly cutting edge: Michael Itkoff's CtrlAltDel in Raleigh." INDYweek, September 25, 2013.
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October 5, 2013