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    Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
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    1. chrisaldrich 20 May 2022
      In part in order to heighten his praise of Aldus as the ideal printer, Erasmus noted by contrast that most printers, given the absence of regulations, “fill the world with pamphlets and books [that are] . . . foolish, ignorant, malig-nant, libellous, mad, impious and subversive; and such is the flood that even

      things that might have done some good lose all their goodness.”198 The overabundance of bad books drowned out even any good bits that might be present among them.

      And we now say these same sorts of things about the internet and social media.

      similes Erasmus information overload social media gourmet vs. gourmand quantity over quality quantitative vs. qualitative signal to noise ratio Aldus Manutius
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