In the past, the way we obtained information was limited, so we rarely accessed valuable information, which led to a narrow perspective.
However, even though we now live in an information boom era where we can access lots of information, several new problems have emerged:
- Recommendation algorithms tend to showcase only things you already like, forming an "information cocoon"
- Valuable information is often overwhelmed by spam.
- Information overload makes it difficult to filter out what's truly valuable.
So, our perspective might actually be narrower in these modern times.