As a writer, if you information dump on your readers you will not have as much control over what they see. On top of that, you will confuse your poor readers. Instead, offering a little bit of information here and there is the better route to take. What this does, is it gives your reader enough information to keep the story moving forward and provides suspense.

There are many stories of great authors who would write out a huge information bank for their story. After they had become the god of their story and knew everything about it, they would begin writing. However, the authors that did this would never write everything that they knew about the story. They would write only what was necessary for the readers to know. It obviously worked because many of these written stories became classics.