Abundance

There is too much information for any one person to know. This is a fundamental principle of the world. Even the information pertaining to our particular field of interest or expertise is too much to know. And most fields of interesting are adding to their collective body of knowledge every day, and in many cases, every minute or every second. What to do? Abundance is a problem in the domain of information, but it is also an asset. If an area of interest were able to be fully known by an individual, how interesting would it be? What would compel us to pursue it? Abundance poses a challenge to our intelligence - how can we, short of knowing the full field (if we even know what 'knowing' is, in this regard) of interest, maintain a reasonable relationship with the body of knowledge? The solution, or solutions, to abundance lie in other paradigms, like tagging, filtering and aggregating. Our best shot at coming to grips with abundance is a collective, collaborative approach.