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One of the effects of living with electric information
is that we live habitually in a state of information
overload. There’s always more than you can cope
with. Now the young have devised a strategy for
dealing with this, quite apart from just inattention;
they have devised a much more potent strategy of
myth-making. Our ancestors, in the age of the
hunter, lived in a mythic world because they had
none of the literate means of classification of