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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.”

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

Individuals and organizations launch 571 new websites a minute. 900 Billion/year: cost of lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation from information overload. Information overload was first mentioned in 1962, in an article entitled “ Operation Basic: The Retrieval of Wasted Knowledge ” by Gertram M.