Information Overload

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Information Overload

I am going to explore the topic of information overload. Based on How Much Information 2003? (Lyman and Varion), "The world's total production of information amounts to about 250 megabytes for each man, woman, and child on earth." Someday in the near future everyone will have access to all recorded information.

Before we drown in all of this information, we need to learn to swim and take advantage of what is available to us. Through better training and tools, we will be better able to sort through it and find what we need in order to take advantage of everything we have available to us.