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We Are Living In The Age of Information Overload
How to stay afloat in an endless sea of information
Information has never been easier to access than it is today. All we have to do is go on our phones, type a question into google and we are presented with millions and millions of results.
A wealth of information is at our fingertips and although it may seem like a good thing, that is not necessarily the case.
Throughout human history the amount of information available was scarce. Go back one thousand years and we were not aware of the existence of America and Oceania.
It may not sound like much, but considering the sheer amount of information we have available about our planet today, it is a big change.
Every two days we create as much information from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. That is an incredible amount of data!
Our brains have not evolved to process such large amounts of information. Nowadays, we can find out what happened on the other side of the globe with a few searches on the internet, whereas a millennia ago, we were unaware of the existence of much of the wider world!
This is a problem in more ways than one. In today’s interconnected world it is arguable that you need to be informed about events that…
