Written by, April 7 -- Ananya Berani, Moitrayee Das

We are the most informed generation in human history. We are also the ones who cannot critically think anymore.

This is not a contradiction, but a consequence.

It is popularly perceived about information overload, that the problem is quantity, that we have accumulated too much and that the solution should be to consume less. However, this assumption is wrong. It is not the problem of quantity, but what the quantity does to our cognitive environment in which the information lands. Each piece of news headline or social media post about a casualty figure, a crisis, a climate statistic, lands on top of each other accumulating, leaving a psychological trace. The traces are small in the beg...