From Plagues of the Mind by Bruce S. Thorton, page XVI.
More to the purpose of the essay, the "horizontal" spread of knowledge, its dissemniation through widespread literacy, universal education, and high-tech media of transmission, has not banished ignorance, false knowledge, interested error, or institutionalized lies. The increase in facts and data has simply created a glut of decontextualized information that is inimical to knowledge, let alone wisdom.
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