Too Much Is Not Enough: How Digital Technology Is Corrupting Society

by Clarence E. McKnight Jr., Hank H. Cox

LTG (Ret.) Clarence E. McKnight, Jr., (“Mac”) a native of Tennessee and 1952 graduate of West Point, served in the Korean War, commanded two Signal Battalions in Europe, including Commander, 5th Signal Command/deputy chief of staff for communications-electronics, U.S. Army Europe. He served as commandant of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School, and commander, U.S. Army Communications Command. He served four tours as commander of Fort Gordon, Georgia, and Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and concluded his active career as Director of Command, Control and Communications Systems for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C.

Mac believes the extraordinary promise of digital communications technology is being squandered as government, schools and individuals are inundated with more information than they can manage. Indeed, he is concerned that digital technology is corrupting society in unforeseen ways that is undermining our social cohesion, political stability and economic strength.

This book is a warning and call to arms.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 24, 2016

About the author

Clarence E. McKnight Jr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1929 and graduated West Point in 1952. He rose to general officer status going on to head both tactical and strategic communications commands before becoming deputy commandant and commandant of the Signal Training Centre and commanding general of Fort Gordon in 1976. After eighteen months, he became the first three-star commander of the Army Communications Command, Fort Huachuca, with more than 33,000 soldiers and civilians spread throughout fourteen countries. At Fort Gordon, he witnessed the merger of tactical and strategic communications.