Informational deluge has a silver lining

I will for purposes of this piece, and a couple or more others to follow, call it the Information Age.

It is an age characterised, fundamentally, by easy and virtually instantaneous access to information and any conceivable body, or snippets thereof, of knowledge. It is an age in which all manner and aspects of information is obtainable just by the press of a button, the click of a mouse, or by way of brushing a finger along or across a touch sensitive display screen.