My latest Guardian column, “The Internet Problem: when an abundance of choice becomes an issue,” discusses the thoroughly modern dilemma of choice in the face of abundance — not just an abundance of reading material or music, but an abundance of actions enabled by the net.
My internet problem is the one so many of us struggle with: how do you choose when the constraints of geography, income and circumstance disappear? What goes in a playlist when all the music ever recorded is one click away? Which experts’ thought processes should you tap into when tens of millions of them are on Twitter? How do you choose a book from the millions that you can discover with a Google Books search?
But as hard as it is to navigate the infinite universe of potential input, deciding what to *do* with all that information is even harder.
The Internet Problem: when an abundance of choice becomes an issue
