Too much info Nowadays and particularly from the second half of the past century, thanks to all of the advantages in technology, we can say that we are the most and best (?) informed of the whole history. To my thought, there is no doubt that this is a great achievement of modern societies, as it allows to the citizenry to get access to relevant information about policy, economy, health, social issues, culture, religion,etc, what as a result, involves a better and healthier development of both individuals and population. Today, we can have immediate access to all kind of information but, at the same time, we could think of it as an inverse process happening in a very subtle manner: all kind of information can have immediate access to us, as well. This is a point I find particularly interesting, because we use to thinking of information as something we have the capacity to access to and manage at our will. We are prone to believe that information is kind of a passive resource we have at hand reach, and that we are who masters the situation at every single moment. But, what if instead, were the information itself shaping us, defining us and taking control over our attention? How much time and energy we spend on selecting, deciphering, thinking of, understanding and coping with information which, at the end of the day, it's not relevant or useful to our lives? The so known statement “Information is power” becomes true only when who knows that information has the capacity to do something with it. The real power information provides lies not on information itself, but in what we're able to do from it. So, considering the little control we've got over most of the information we get access to...where is the point of such waste of energy and time? Not to mention the kinds of disturbing and shocking contents we've ended up, unfortunately, getting used to be exposed to. So, open information and shared knowledge are a treasure of civilization, no doubts about it. Nonetheless, when facing the massive amount of “what the hell is this - information” surrounding us, one misses the chance to go to the supermarket and get some mental condoms. Just to keep self mind clean and protected.