Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

information overload, with the printing there was an anxiety that there is too much to know. Leibniz wrote a horrible heap of books that is constantly increasing, Adrien Baillet feared the return of the barbarism as a a result of th ebooks increasing in multitudes, This lead to fragments of knowledge and the anxiety as well as praise and derogatory... See more

Situational overload is not the problem. When we complain about information overload, what we’re usually complaining about is ambient overload. This is an altogether different beast. Ambient overload doesn’t involve needles in haystacks. It involves haystack-sized piles of needles. We experience ambient overload when we’re surrounded by so much inf... See more