INFORMATION OVERLOAD
- CNN - Health care workers overburdened by `information overload'
- Jan. 28, 1996.
- Change and Information Overload: negative effects - by F. Heylighen, Feb 19, 1999.
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- We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You:
Being Held Hostage by Information Overload - by Mark R. Nelson
- Seek and Ye Shall Find
(Maybe) - by Steve G. Steinberg. Wired 4.05 - May 1996.
- Dying for Information? A Report
on the Effects of Information Overload In the UK
and Worldwide - by Paul Waddington, Reuters, United Kingdom. Since 1994, Reuters has conducted three
studies into issues of information in the business world. The first, To Know or not to know: the politics
of information, revealed that despite the profileration of office technology, we are still a race
of information misers. The second, Information as an asset: the invisible goldmine, showed how
companies failed to realise the value of information. In October 1996, Reuters conducted the first ever
study into Information Overload, called Dying for information, which revealed the significant
extent to which overload is becoming a problem in the information age. This paper examines the findings
and implications of the this research.
- Information Anxiety - (Link Unavailable) - Summary of a book by Richard Saul Wurman. The great information age is really an explosion of non-information; it is an explosion of data. To deal with the increasing onslaught of data, it is imperative to distinguish between data and information. Information must be that which leads to understanding. Order doesn't equal understanding.
- Information
Overdose - Research Study Identifies "Information Anxiety" as Serious Problem
Facing Knowledge Workers, by Brett Thomas.
- Warning: Too Much Info Hazardous To Your Health - by Greg Gillespie, Editor, The Institute.
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Last Updated: July 14, 2000.