Striving for resolution in information age

A few weeks ago I mentioned The Circle by Dave Eggers here — a novel about identity and social media and much else — quoting one of the critical lines in the book: all that happens must be known.

You could argue that such a ravening hunger for information — not knowledge, which is different — is typical of the current age, and certainly in sport there is no shortage of takers for any and all angles on the game, every aspect of the proceedings, all manner of information.

I should know: only a few weeks ago I fell helplessly into a rabbit-hole of racecourse measurement which featured such milestones as the discovery that that measuring must be done in the morning before the heat of the sun makes the ground expand...