A conundrum....................

The information available to everyone on the planet is growing at an exponential rate.  Anyone with a smartphone today has better mobile phone capabilities than the president of the Unites States did 25 years ago.  We have better access to information than the president had 15 years ago.  We now have an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips anytime we want it. . . .
     Information flow will only continue to speed up in the future, so we have ourselves a conundrum.  It will become more and more important to separate the meaningful from the meaningless as most people will be continuously trying to drink from the fire hose of information instead of focusing on the truly important areas that they can control.

-Ben Carlson,  from A Wealth Of Common Sense:  Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity In Any Investment Plan