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

What good is it to have all of the world’s knowledge at your fingertips if you don’t have the bandwidth to prioritize it, or the expertise to know if it is competent? At one time we had a scarcity of information, but today our attention is in the midst of a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.

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

CIA analyst, Martin Guri described the vast amount of information that has engulfed us with this dumbfounding statistic:More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth. In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total. And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 “exabytes” of new informati... See more