Two recent videos featured on FlowingData tell the story of information abundance and the need for information visualization to grasp its meaning.
See: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/ for the recent BBC documentary featuring Professor Hans Rosling and his entertaining presentation of historical changes in world health and wealth statistics over two hundred years.
A related video is Journalism in the Age of Data by Geoff McGhee from the Digital Journalism Program at Stanford University.