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🗞️ The Myth of the Informed Citizen
Nicholas Carr traces a recurring fantasy of modern life: that each new communication technology, from the telegraph to the internet, would produce wiser citizens and healthier democracies — and how each expansion of information instead bred new forms of confusion and overload. At its centr
Nicholas Carr traces a recurring fantasy of modern life: that each new communication technology, from the telegraph to the internet, would produce wiser citizens and healthier democracies — and how each expansion of information instead bred new forms of confusion and overload. At its centre is Walter Lippmann's idea of the 'pseudo-environment', the simplified mental world we build from headlines and fragments. More information has never guaranteed more understanding.
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