We’re Drowning in Information While Starving for Wisdom
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe Next Google Isn’t Search, It’s Curation
I watched my friend spend 45 minutes trying to find a simple recipe for chocolate chip cookies. She scrolled through endless blog posts about the author’s childhood memories, SEO-optimized paragraphs about the history of chocolate, and 27 variations before finding the actual ingredients. “There’s too much,” she sighed, closing her laptop in defeat. “I just wanted cookies.”
This is the modern internet experience. We have access to all of human knowledge, but finding what we actually need feels like drinking from a firehose. The problem is no longer scarcity — it’s abundance. And the next trillion-dollar company won’t help us find more information; it will help us find the right information.
The Great Digital Clutter: How We Got Here
The internet was supposed to democratize information. Instead, it created a content landfill.
The SEO Arms Race: Every business and creator is forced to produce massive amounts of content to rank on Google. Quality is sacrificed for quantity.AI-Generated Noise: Now, AI tools can generate decent-sounding…