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Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates
Aarthi writes "Microsoft's annual CEO meet-and-greet kicked off on Thursday with the company's Chairman, Bill Gates, countering the notion that the workers today are not overloaded with information.'We still want a lot of information.' He also outlined plans for Office 12, the next version of its desktop software, which is due to arrive in the second half of next year." From the article: "There is a real temptation that the thing that comes in the latest is the one you shift your attention to, even though that may be the least important...That turns you into a filing clerk."
After listening to Bill Gates forcast the death of one of the most popular electronic devices of all time (the IPOD) and then listen yesterday to Young Frankenstein lookalike, Steve Ballmer, forcast the death of Google, it's hard to take anything seriously that comes from a MS exec's mouth.
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"If she is talking to me about something 'really important', like shopping, holidays, TV or hair and my brain doesn't agree how important it is I simply don't hear what she's saying. What worse is that she has a typical female ability to multiplex two or more streams of information, one of which might actually be important. This has lead to all sorts of arguments."
Would anybody ask..."Does this affect anyone else?"
Only every man who has ever HAD a girlfriend.
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