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Information Overload Predicted Problem of the Year for 2008

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nagging-inboxes dept.

Wired is reporting that information overload is being predicted by some analysts as the problem of the year for 2008. "'It's too much information. It's too many interruptions. It's too much lost time,' Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira declared. 'It's always too much of a good thing.' Information overload isn't exactly new, but Spira said the problem has grown as technology increases societal expectations for instantaneous response. And more information available, he said, also means more time wasted looking for the right information, whether in an old e-mail or through a search engine."

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  1. This is a really old story by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Informative

    But the answer was revealed recently over on
    Why the Coming Data Flood Won't Drown the Internet:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=392492&cid=21737872

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. False link! by N3TW4LK3R · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parent is another Minicity-link !

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Re:Overload? Hardly.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    fohootville retired.