The Importance of Document Scarcity

In the last few thousand years, we've transitioned from a regime of extreme document scarcity to an environment of document in gorgement. We are overloaded with access to documents, honestly, 99 % of which are of really no relevance to us. So when there's too much to read and too much to share with limitless, lossless digital copying of documents, the problem of the world becomes not how do i get the information i need, but how do I prioritize that?