Here's a book for our times: "Deadly Decisions" by Christopher Burns, a former journalist, editor, and now expert on information management. If you wonder why successful, smart, informed people with lots of money can wide up dead broke when Bernie Madoff's decades-long ponzi scheme is exposed, an inability to distinguish truth from mere information may be the answer (along with the old vices of wishful thinking and pure greed). We live in a world bursting with information, but truth is scarce. We settle for "virtual truth," the information age's version of the ancient "likely story." Today, in the ruins all around us, we see the high cost of "virtual truth" in finance, real estate, industry, government. "Virtual truth" may be the death of us yet.
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