Tuesday, December 27th, 2005, 8:18 am
The Electronic Information Overload
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NN runs an article on that well-understood impact of excessive information digestion. This often leads to addiction, which can be treated by clinics these days.
Will all this instantly accessible information make us much smarter, or simply more stressed? When can we break to think, absorb and ponder all this data?
“People are already struggling and feeling like they need to keep up with the variety of information sources they already have,” said David Greenfield, a psychologist who wrote “Virtual Addiction.” “There are upper limits to how much we can manage.”
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