"We are in great haste to constuct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing to communicate." -Henry David Thoreau
"Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control the contingencies in thier lives. What people knew about had an action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost..."
We have so much information and so little action that we are cursed with elephantine impotence.
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