fighting information pollution

Web guru fights info pollution:

"The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better," he [Jakob Nielsen] says.

If you are a company somehow related to the management and manipulation of information, certainly more information is better. However, this does not say much about the quality of life, and not much about the quality of information.

"The fix for information pollution is not complex, but is about taking back control your computer has over you."

This is a very profound philosophical statement; certainly not everyone believes that there is a control we have to take from the computers. Just how do we go about tacking back the control anyway? I'm not saying that this is not possible, it is just now easy due to many factors, and one of them being that not everyone believes there is a control to be taken back. As in any solution to a potential problem, one of the most important things in the process of discovering the solution is the ability to diagnose the problem properly. In the case of the information pollution, contextually diagnosing the root of the problem might turn out to be the hardest task.