You can never have too much information, right? Wrong. The last thing we need is more bloody information. Julian Patterson is all for turning the Internet off and doing something more interesting instead
Why the information society will know even less than we do
Although we have come to believe that having more information makes us better informed, we are in fact drowning in the stuff.

Not only do the mass media reproduce information at a rate that exceeds our capacity to absorb it, but the quality of information is being diluted. Mass recycling which has never been cheaper and more widely available than on the Internet, has increased the sheer volume of information without increasing the supply. The result is a sort of inflation of the intellectual currency, a bloated economy in which the knowledge-pound is worth less and less.

So is what you can get with it. If you use the Internet, you find it impossible to validate the "information" you find there. There is no source, no provenance, and no way to check. In school maths terms, it's not so much getting the answer without seeing the workings-out as getting the answer without seeing the question.

We're all addicted to the idea that more information is a Good Thing, but what are we going to do with it all? Surely, information is demand-driven not supply-driven. You go looking for it when you need it. Surfing - or sifting through piles of information you don't need before you know you don't need it - is an absurd waste of time. Give it up. Shut down your computer and go to bed with a good book.