“In Over Our Heads” – My Simmons commencement address

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “In Over Our Heads” – My Simmons commencement address
David Weinberger, Joho the Blog.
David Weinberger hits the mark with this talk about information overload. We don't feel overloaded by the effects of 1.3 million apple pie recipes or 7.6 million cute cat photos. Why not? Because we're not expected to master them. But with information it's different, because there used to be so much less that we could master all the information. But not any more. "We’re all in over our heads. Forever. This isn’t a temporary swim in the deep end of the pool. Being in over our heads is the human condition." But hey - that's a good thing. More...