The Past Speaks

Stumbled upon this Edward R. Morrow quote:

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

The truth has a funny way of not only repeating itself (notice, I did not say history), but resurfacing at the most auspicious of times. Year after year, the tools change, the dilemma remains. We can generate more content than ever, parse it in ways and at speeds that are genuinely unprecedented, but if it doesn't have a core meaning -- well, there's a name for that.

White noise.