You take readers on a great journey in this piece. You selections of quotes is outstanding.

I am endlessly fascinated with the constant transformation we see today. I'm young, but even the generation below me has grown up completely dependent on the internet for socialization, research, and everything in between. I was listening to NPR and they noted the old school way of "cruising" in cars and socializing has been completely replaced by social media services like Twitter and Facebook. At least I learned how to find and read a book in the library.

As you pointed out, the problem with this is the inability to fully obtain and process the wealth of knowledge and information that is now available to us.

You can follow a trail at lightning speed,but can you really remember what you read last week? As Teresa Lunt observed on email, “Simply organizing information better, or enabling it to be searched better, doesn’t solve this problem.”

We need to increase our capacity to deal with this information. We need to digest more of what we’re reading. We need the modern day commonplace book.

This is the heart of the issue and reminds me of a couple recent things I read.

Connected UX is by Aarron Walter (the Director of User Experience at MailChimp) and he talks about how he managed a team and figure out how to deal with the abundance of data.

It was choking my productivity, and making my head spin. A friend of mine who’s helped many people tame their inbox and prioritize their work life recommended I simply nuke all of the emails and shut down the form. “If you can’t process the information, then stop wasting your time!” But my gut told me there was value in the feedback; I just wasn’t sure how to use it.

There is definite need for something to help people organize, collect and maintain their personal and professional lives. An organized system to bridge gaps between individuals, teams, communities. He turned to custom scripts, Evernote and gmail, but this isn't really a plausible solution to the majority. Really great read - I love reading about how people go about solving their problems.

Our mentality hasn't yet adapted to a rapidly changing world is a recent exceptional Hubski post by Seneca