An Information-Rich World #1

Facts are lawful if certain of them can be predicted from certain others. We need store only the fraction needed to predict the rest.
This is exactly what science is: the process of replacing unordered masses of brute fact with tidy statements of orderly relations from which these facts can be inferred.

In a knowledge-rich world, progress does not lie in the direction of reading and writing information faster or storing more of it. Progress lies in the direction of extracting and exploiting the patterns of the world so that far less information needs to be read, written, or stored.

Progress depends on our ability to devise better and more powerful thinking programs for man and machine.

SHUBIK, M. (1971). DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS FOR AN INFORMATION-RICH WORLD. Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, 37.

But, despite having data, why decision making is difficult most of the time?