If you take one week worth of New-York Times articles you well have the amount of information that was processed during a lifetime by an individual last century.

We had few intel, now we have to much! Hence the need of an ability to find the right intel in order to produce quality knowledge.

This book is about connecting dots : information and knowledge, authoritative information and free-speech, mass and long tail. The author takes time to openly define what is a document. I was struck because we fly over simple and useful concepts. I had the same feeling about the definition of a query and the cognitive ways we use to locate ourself in the noosphere.

By the end of the book, well I didn’t any solution, but a clear overview of a shifting paradigm which I wasn’t able to apprehend before.