One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
- Marshall Mcluhan
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
- James Gleick
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
- Patrick Ness
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
- Edward Tufte
- Marshall Mcluhan
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
- James Gleick
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
- Patrick Ness
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
- Edward Tufte
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