On the one hand, it has never been more necessary to connect information, on the other hand we have never had better technologies to achieve it.
The times when truth-relativism was a harmless academic gimmick or even an emancipating story of liberation are long gone. The idea that there is no truth is not only used as propaganda by authoritarian regimes to dismiss the quest for objectivity but is more and more corrosive to the foundations of established democracies.
The good news, we now have the technologies that turn the web into a huge decentralized database with cryptography-backed authorities and which allows the expression of statements about facts in a concise and verifiable manner.