But what started out as a liberating stream has turned into a deluge of chaos.... matters have reached such proportions today that for the average person, information no longer has any relation to the solution of problems.... The tie between information and action has been severed.... It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)