Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy?

Dareth writes "Are we being overloaded by knowledge? Is the number of sources growing faster than we can keep up with them? These questions are posed by this article in USA Todays's tech section The article seems to suggest we need 'better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates.'" From the article: "With a generation growing up expecting everything on the Internet, libraries, non-profit organizations and leading search companies like Yahoo and Microsoft are committing hundreds of millions of dollars collectively to scan books and other printed materials so they can be indexed and retrieved online. HarperCollins Publishers even announced plans in mid-December to digitize its vast catalog."

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[Bananatree3]

You could say the heck with it all, join the Amish community and say the electron doesn't exist.

from the article

[peculiarmethod]

"It may take better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates."

Nah, that logic is all screwed up. We obviously need to engineer and release silicon eating rats to control the ever dispersing technology, and rat eating cats, then cat eating dogs, and finally, open a lot of vietnamese restraunts everywhere technology was over-taking everyday human existance.

Overload?

[drdanny_orig]

I gotta believe that it takes very little information to overload the average reader of USA Today.

Re:If Google can't find it...

[HermanAB]

If you can't find yourself in Google, do you exist?