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Powerless over infinite data?
Mar 12, 2008
At the Wall Street Journal, Lee Gomes writes why we're powerless to resist grazing on endless web data:[T]echnology is playing a trick on us. We are programmed for scarcity and can't dial back when something is abundant. The same happens with food: Because at one time we never knew when the next saber-toothed tiger might come along for food, it made sense to pack on the calories whenever we chanced upon them. That's not much help in today's world of snack aisles and super sizes.The last decade or two have seen an abrupt switch from scarcity to, essentially, an infinite supply of information. It only makes sense that people need new skills to deal with it, which is why I wrote Bit Literacy. (tx, Matt)
The term that comes to my mind is Information Obesity.