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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
174 full newspapers’ worth of content each and every day, five times higher than in 1986.2 Instead of empowering us, this deluge of information often overwhelms us. Information Overload has become Information Exhaustion, taxing our mental resources and leaving us constantly anxious that we’re forgetting something. Instantaneous access to the world’
... See moreTiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Who could have imagined that such a wealth of information, science, and technology could have resulted in collective madness, but so it has. It never needed to be so. It does not need to be so now. If there is not a similar explosion of understanding and wisdom in order to restore proper balance between the higher cognitive capacities and the lower... See more
Dee Hock • DATA TO WISDOM - Dee W Hock
All of this was foreseen way back in 1977 by the Nobel-winning economist Herbert Simon. Writing about the coming information-rich world, he warned that what information consumes is “the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
Daniel Goleman • Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
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
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. Eliot, The Rock