Drowning In Information
from the it's-too-much!!!!!!!!!!! dept
As if you couldn't have figured this one out on your own. The average person today is drowning in information overload and there are very few tools to help people stay afloat. Of course, I'd like to think Techdirt is helping some people stay afloat on important business/techie news stories, but that's just to satisfy my ego. I do think that there are a bunch of companies out there that are trying to work on the issue of information overload (I keep hearing about more of them). The question really is whether or not any of them will work. Part of me suspects that it's really more of a human issue than a technical one: how well are people trained to handle this much information? Update: Just came across another article about a company working on an information overload solution.
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