John refers to "potential information overload". I'm not sure if he meant
it to read as one phrase but in either case, it points to something that I
would *not* include in information overload.
Potential information beyond one's ability to reach it is not overload.
Only in our imaginary worlds where things might be different can we even
imagine this.
The case has always been there. There has always been far more
information (in the potential sense) than we could possibly access. The
proportional accessible - in time, energy, focus, understanding - has been
far higher than the accessible portion by a great degree.
Using information overload in this sense is like saying "possibility
overload". There's always way more of that than we can even imagine too.
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