I feel like the situation is even more extreme in a sense. It seems like ubiquitous information disrupts a large percentage of all possible story plots.
Most story plots hinge on ignorance and discovery. With no physical personification of ignorance, a plot is simply less compelling.
Imagine -
* Odysseus travels through exotic, distant lands, that he just forget to do Google earth on beforehand, * Why wait for Godot when you can just give him a call? * etc.
I feel like the situation is even more extreme in a sense. It seems like ubiquitous information disrupts a large percentage of all possible story plots.
Most story plots hinge on ignorance and discovery. With no physical personification of ignorance, a plot is simply less compelling.
Imagine - * Odysseus travels through exotic, distant lands, that he just forget to do Google earth on beforehand, * Why wait for Godot when you can just give him a call? * etc.