Information Overload is not the problem

Clay Shirky gives an excellent talk re-phrasing the conundrum of information overload. He explains that information overload has existed for centuries (at least since the printing press), so it is not a problem, it is a fact, or a condition that we have naturally immersed ourselves. The problem however is not an increase in information, but that our filters (social and institutional, not just technological) are no longer working.