Needle in a haystack

Are we in danger of amassing so much information that we can’t find the needle?

Sven Sachsalber spent 18 hours searching for a needle in a giant haystack at Palais de Tokyo in Paris last month.html

‘…. the larger the haystack, goes the logic, the more difficult it is to find a needle html

One of the objectives of relational database was to eliminate data redundancy. Where data is distributed across a network with no central management (like the World Wide Web) redundancy is inevitable.

If you take the idea that haystack is the Internet, and the needle is the desire to know, then perhaps this connects to Idea Fracking.