Because overload works in favor of the commercial interests that in practical terms control such societies. This is a teleological argument, based on the good fit between interest, on one hand, and outcome on the other. It is not a conspiracy theory, because the concurrent rise of both info overload and the electronic information society happened in organic fashion, as a matter of expediency, without anyone planning or even being aware of it.

George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, loc. 451