Скачать или смотреть II. Information Saturation: When Everyone Knows Everything at Once

Civilizations have always been defined by how they manage knowledge. In one era, power rested on secrets sealed in temples, archives, and courtly whispers. In another, on the mass distribution of books, broadcasts, and data streams. Today, we enter a third condition: not scarcity, not even abundance, but saturation, a state where everyone can know everything at once.

This is not simply an information problem. It is a structural shift in how humanity organizes itself. Advantage now has a half-life measured in moments. Trust erodes as contradictions surface instantly. Agency is no longer about collecting more, but about filtering, staging, and channeling the flood before it drowns meaning.

What follows is a map: an attempt to trace how universality reshapes power, institutions, and the human condition; and to ask what design choices remain when attention itself becomes the battlefield.

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Essays in the Augurnomics series are published on Substack:
https://substack.com/@davidseanrogers

Collected volumes from the Augurnomics project are published on Amazon:
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(Search “Augurnomics – David S. Rogers”)