reversing........................

 

     Our world, and each of our lives, quite suddenly became overwhelming technocratic, sucking millions into the simulation.  Scientists like to say that human knowledge is doubling every twelve months.  That is explosive, exponential growth.  But let's clarify that:  Complicated knowledge is doubling every twelve months.  Complex knowledge, which must be lived in real time and can't be discovered or stored by computers, is not increasing at all.  This asymmetry explains why we're bombarded with ingenious solutions to age-old problems but never seem to make progress toward greater happiness.  In fact, it's the reverse:  We are losing our sense of life's meaning faster and faster.

-Arthur C. Brooks,  The Meaning of Your Life