There is an environmental difference. Today we are inundated with information, much of it text. People are constantly reading today. Text messages, emails, Fac

There is an environmental difference. Today we are inundated with information, much of it text. People are constantly reading today. Text messages, emails, Facebook posts. But these are all low-quality. Additionally, messages have to be concise. If someone at work emails me and it's longer than a Tweet, I'm not reading it. I don't have time for it and, if it's like the majority of emails I receive, it's irrelevant anyway. As information noise goes up, attention spans go down. Which means flowery language, formality, and long text starts to disappear. When I've been reading on a computer all day for work, do I have the patience and energy to read a long book at home? Or would I rather watch a movie and relax. But here's the silver lining I'm hoping for: AI could be a way out of this mess. AI can sift out the noise from the signal. But it has to be on the personal level. Open source, self-hosted, private. No corporation slanting the biases. There are a lot of interesting implications here. Much like it's impossible to get a human on the phone when calling up your wireless provider, it may become difficult to reach other humans. To "pierce" their AI shield, that protects them from The Infinite Noise.