In too many museums and zoos, the wall text is a flop: too much information, not enough information, explanations that don't make sense.
But anyone who wants to give too much information or withhold too much information — those are not the ideal people to employ".
But as New Yorkers tried to make sense of it all, some found themselves questioning their own instinctive sense of right and wrong, of public and private, of how much information is too much information.
How much information is just too much information?" Mercifully for her scholars and archivists, Sontag missed the age of Twitter, leaving the conundrum of how to preserve Twitter conversations for someone else to solve.
Much of that labor has been expended on measuring how much information is too much information -- for the families or the administrators of the federal Victim Compensation Fund, which has already drawn up its formulas for calculating people's worth and lost income.
"Precisely because of digital disruption, precisely because there is so much information and news and information out there, the value of a trusted guide, the value of a trusted brand" has gone up, he said.
It helps you make a case, but it also makes its own case: about how to organize information, how much information to organize, how to look at the world.
But there is a price to be paid for that ocean of data, he cautioned, quoting a line from T. S. Eliot: "Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" So much information brings "more confusion," Mr. Hentoff said.
He asks if it's a case of document flooding, in which there's so much information there's no information, where "you have a warehouse full of documents".
"Parents need any information, and as much information as they could get," said Dana Fisher, a Chappaqua resident and special education teacher in the Pleasantville public schools, who also works as a special education tutor.
