Science & Tech Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Boorstin lands the punch with a party trick: he starts on the sugar high. "Technology is so much fun" sounds like permission, even delight, before he turns it into a warning about excess. The line works because it refuses the easy posture of technophobia. He grants the seduction first, then indicts the way pleasure can smother discernment. "Drown" is the operative verb: not attacked by machines, not replaced by them, but overwhelmed by sheer volume and velocity, like a swimmer caught in surf that never stops.

The sharper move is his distinction between information and knowledge, a hierarchy that feels even more brutal in the age of feeds. "Fog" is not just quantity; its the loss of orientation. In fog you can have plenty of data points and still not know where you are, what matters, or whats true. Subtext: modern life doesnt just give us more facts, it sabotages the conditions knowledge needs - time, attention, context, synthesis, and the humility to admit what we dont know.

As a historian, Boorstin is also defending a craft. Knowledge is curated memory: interpretation built from selection and narrative. His fear is that a culture intoxicated by access will confuse retrieval with understanding and novelty with significance. The quote reads like a pre-internet diagnosis of our current condition: an ecosystem optimized for stimulation, where being informed becomes a performance and wisdom becomes an increasingly inconvenient pace.