It's 'the intelligence age,' say tech titans—but information will not save us

The optimal solutions to our biggest problems are needles in a data haystack, so finding them exceeds the limited human mind.

Donald Trump's win was aided by tapping deeply into the darker and more "irrational" core of human nature, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: The entangled social, political and environmental crises we now face will not be addressed by having more information.

A society obsessed with the perfection of reason inevitably breeds its opposite: brute force and proud irrationality, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Reason creates a kind of ticking time bomb at the core of society.

He says the arc of reason eventually arrives at a brutish world ruled by the most brutal, democratic "civilization" Zelizer says.

This is not to condone naked violence, baseless hatred and shameless propaganda, but to recognize the limits of reason in contemporary life.

For the white subject, the shock and sense of loss is tangible, writes Andrew Keen .

Keen: For modern humanists, humans are inherently rational.

The primary future challenge is merely how to make them more logical, more civil, more reasonable.