Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. 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.
Friends and I have discussed this very proposition. It's so interesting to me, at the age of 25, that so many people in STEM fields and Science related expression in Humanities have been so accurate about what the world we occupy would become if careless.