Talk:Information overload/Archives/2014

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Mindfulness meditation and increased sleep help.Romanfall (talk) 03:19, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I know this may not be the correct location for this but as an article on information ‘overload’ it gives no hint or direction as to how someone experiencing it may elevate it? (Even temporally) – Devan

Toffler didn't coin the term, and the phenomenon predates the Net
Plato, Aristotle ? Wrote about this problem. Romanfall (talk) 03:17, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I did a little work on the first paragraph. Toffler popularized the term, but it had been coined earlier. The earliest I can find is in a book by Bertram Gross, which I have cited.

The article makes it sound as if info overload is an Internet Age idea. It's not. It comes straight out of the Information Age. I've added a brief reference to the idea's origins in the sensory overload trope.

This article does need some serious work, though. And, much as I love Clay Shirky, don't you think that having a section pointing to one of his wise aphorisms is a little out of place? dweinberger (talk) 05:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

When it costs $16,000,000 a year to maintain Wikipedia, has the idea crumbled? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.115.206.109 (talk) 22:28, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Historical context of information overload
The Ancient Greeks thought the amount of knowledge was greater than what could be read in a lifetime. Romanfall (talk) 03:16, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I see information overload that could be further examined throughout history in society and propose a historical section in the article. I have an interest in seeing the phenomenon recurring as new forms of information technology affect information overload. ST2526 (talk) 11:42, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have added a history section with some sub-sections. Please feel free to suggest any changes.  There are likely other examples of information overload associated with each new innovation in production of information or communications within the library and information science literature (i.e., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ~1665) but I can not locate the references.  ST2526 (talk) 12:18, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I am not sure how to integrate the existing information under Origin into the History section, if someone can assist in this for the next edit, that would be wonderful. ST2526 (talk) 11:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)