The more communication there is, the more difficult it is for communication to succeed.

I'd like to learn more about this because there seems something deep here regarding the current explosion in online communication mediums. The trend of more communication equals more value must at some point inflect (if it hasn't already). I'm curious why and how, and what it means to the next stage of the internet. Is the problem simply solved by filters and aggregators, or is this simply the continuation of an evolution?