Vandana Shiva Quotes

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Even as the world becomes saturated with seemingly unlimited information, “the benefit that ought to come with having a variety of opinions” writes author Bill Bishop, “is lost to the righteousness that is the special entitlement of homogeneous groups.” The result is divisiveness, polarization, and rancor in our national discourse – First World tribalism – with crowds gathering at the poles of every issue.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: the attention of its recipients.

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

The world is too full of information.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.