Interpolated Truth: info action ratio

"The telegraph may have made the country into 'one neighborhood,' but it was a peculiar one, populated by strangers who knew nothing of each other except the most superficial facts... The information-action ratio was dramatically altered. For the first time in human history, people were faced with the problem of information glut, which means that simultaneously the potency of information was diluted.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death