What do we do in a world of abundant information?

1. Filter Failure - BitNorth 2011
@lennysan (inspired by @cshirky)

2. My life

3. My life

4. My life

5. My life

6. Triangle of
Doom
My life

7. Amount of information produced
Up and to the right

8. “I would expect that next year, people will
share twice as much information as they
share this year, and next year, they will be sharing
twice as much as they did the year before”
--Mark Zuckerberg
And there’s more coming

9. Mark Zuckerberg’s Law of Social Sharing
Y = C *2^X

10. We’re getting addicted

11. There’s erotic power in
having information

13. When did we reach information
overload?

14. In the 1500’s!

15. When there were more books than
you had time to read in your lifetime.

16. How have we survived this long?

17. Gatekeeper

18. Gatekeeper
Publishers

19. Gatekeeper
Publishers
TV execs

20. Gatekeeper
Publishers
TV execs
Music labels

21. Gatekeeper
Publishers
TV execs
Music labels
Movie studios

22. The gatekeepers are gone.

23. It’s not information
overload

24. It’s filter failure

25. The filters we’ve relied on are
broken

26. Uh-oh

27. Too many choices = Bad

28. We suck at abundance

29. What do we do?

30. s
ter
Fil

31. Please stop
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tic
ac
Pr
s
ter
Fil

32. New filters being created

37. Must...
stop...
How do we break
the addiction?

38. 12 step program Why not?
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

39. Other techniques

44. It may be too late for us...

45. ...but not for our
kids!

46. Thanks!