2017-02-12 Sun
Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with?
30 min, 308 words
We are living in an era of information explosion as the world is unprecedentedly connected by advanced technology. While the economy can be driven by knowledge, too much information is not necessarily conducive to social progress.
To begin with, overwhelming information naturally slows its processing. In order to render the information into the more orderly and useful knowledge, people must go through a process of culling, integrating, analyzing of the initial information. While the internet has already saved much time for us by pooling a huge reservoir of information corpus, that more demanding process still rest upon us and our scrutiny. Not surprisingly, an overladen brain will not run as fast and mistakes are bound to happen.
Moreover, misinformation or mistruth will more easily find their way into a platform with overflowing information. With more accessible media, not least the internet, everyone can express their opinion, release news about anything, anyone at any time. But insufficient regulation and the impossible verification for each piece of information make a clear and unbiased judgement more difficult than it already is on the receiving end. Many misunderstanding and even tragedies happen as a result.
Last but not least, too much information creates distraction. Modern people more or less have had the experience of forgetting what their original goal of searching is after a while surfing online because the overload of information there. Ironically, we modern people need to rely on the internet or other conveniences advanced technology provides to enhance efficiency, but more than not, we have to struggle to stay away with those in order to get things done before they are due simply to avoid the waste of much energy of reorientation.
To sum up, too much information is not necessarily not helpful for people's work or life. We need to be wiser in front of a flood of it.
