Information Paints No Picture, Sings No Song, and Writes No Poem

The above title is a quote from R.F. Georgy's novella, Notes from the Cafe. It is the most powerful indictment against the information age I've read to date. Georgy brings back Dostoevsky's Underground Man to observe the digital age and his conclusion is a frightening portrait of an age where "experts and specialist have become the prophets of our time, actors and sports players are mythological heroes, and mediocrity is a virtue."