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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
idea of an information explosion or overload goes back to the 1960s, which seems poignant in retrospect. These concerns expressed a new
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the whe... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure

the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.1 Growth
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
findings were astonishing. More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species