The term “information overload” is frequently used to describe the common experience of feeling bombarded and inundated with incoming data. Is this a new kind of human experience, or an ancient one? What is the relationship between information overload and attention span? How have things chan...
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A professor of informatics explains our shortened attention spans and offers tips on shutting off the flood of information
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