The Age of Common Sense
In the Information Age we are in dramatic need of some intelligence to it all. Information is everywhere, but where is the common sense? iStockPhoto - used with permission Does all the stuff make sense? In the 1990's we all hit WalMart and the mall with our credit cards and started organizing our stuff only to realize that we didn't need all that stuff. Our closets were overflowing, our waistlines were growing, and our debt was showing. More didn't improve our lives and we should have known better, but we didn't. When the Internet came along we started shopping online, racking up more debt all the time and losing ourselves in the wonder of the new library of Alexandria for hours at time. Then, we connected with friends and thought that more was more again and the more friends we had online somehow the more legacy we had. The more we shared, the less privacy we had. We were "liked" for goodness sakes, didn't that count for something? ...