The author pointed out the phenomena of the abundance of information on internet, social media actually got 2 characteristics: synchronicity and multitasking. These 2 caused us unable to focus. That is not all, we tend to be forgetful and feel fatigue.
According to Maryanne Wolf, reading should allow our brain to liberate, free to think, but with overloaded information, we lost the power to even filter what are the necessary information.
Richard Dooling mentioned that in financial field, it was used to be the game between human brains. However, the "Quants" has changed the rule. When it all dominated by AI...it's like the nuclear weapon inventors had not idea what consequence it would bring.
Therefore to deny the current of abundance information seems impossible we need to learn how to filter the information we need, or to train ourselves not to carried away.
one thing a bit pity is in this book, except self-control, there is no more concrete way to teach people to behave wiser facing information overloaded. Well, the truth is, even there is, i am sure not many would really take advice.