overinformed

“We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization,” argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Harvard-based psychologists and leading adult developmental thinkers.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working

In person, he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul that dwelt within; he was all mind; “Man but a rush against” his breast, and it would have conquered his strength; but the might of his smile would have tamed an hungry lion, or caused a legion of armed men to lay their weapons at his feet.

The Last Man

We're so brutally overinformed about every aspect of every player in the NFL

Slate Magazine

Rather, it's our ready acceptance that the past is our only future: that after postmodernism, with its weary, overinformed view that there is nothing new to say, comes something called "superhybridity."

NYT > Home Page

In person, he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul that dwelt within; he was all mind; "Man but a rush against" his breast, and it would have conquered his strength; but the might of his smile would have tamed an hungry lion, or caused a legion of armed men to lay their weapons at his feet.

The Last Man

Modern society is producing ever more overinformed, overanxious and overprotective parents, blamed for causing or exacerbating all sorts of problems in their children, from learning disabilities to teenage anorexia.

TIME.com: Top Stories

Desiccated expertise, of the kind possessed by economists, environmental scientists, and overinformed reporters from the lamestream media, clouds good judgment; Palin's life, by contrast, is presented as one of passion, sincerity, and principle.

The New York Review of Books