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- sarcasm, on 01/24/2009, -0/+10Once I realized that it doesn't say "Overlord" I was no longer interested.
- vizerei, on 01/24/2009, -0/+6Easy: By ignoring things like this.
Learn to put a prefilter on your eyes-to-brain path.
Learn that ***** doesn't need your attention. You will do better when you realize 99.9999% of ***** doesn't require you to look at, there's some other poor sap who pay attention. Focus on the core of what you like. - inactive, on 01/24/2009, -0/+5Taste?
- inactive, on 01/24/2009, -0/+55 PAGES?!!!
Dude, I'm feeling overwhelmed. Why couldn't they just synopsize it? I've got 6 Netflix movies to watch, overdue library books that are collecting late fees and 5 Gigs of unwatched downloaded porn to watch. I'm SWAMPED!!!! - inactive, on 01/24/2009, -2/+6Tactic #1:
Quit digg. - Gndoab, on 01/24/2009, -0/+3"can be damaging to our minds"
So, how is a mind damaged? - radiofrequency, on 01/24/2009, -0/+3***** overload is the problem.
- aftern9ne, on 01/24/2009, -0/+3Tactic #2:
Make text box small to stretch article into 5 pages. - blackturtleus, on 01/24/2009, -0/+2The problem is locating the quality information. This requires some kind of filtering. BUT filtering opens the door to censorship. Despite the old adage that the cream always finds its way to the top, anyone who's ever spent any time on YouTube knows that this old adage does not apply to the internet. There are so many ways of cheating to promote low quality pages above high quality pages on the internet. It may be impossible to develop a fair and unbiased system to allow the truly high quality information to filter to the top without the risk of that information being censored since it doesn't serve the purposes of the powers that be.
- charlietuna, on 01/24/2009, -1/+3Alvin Toffler covered this in 1970. It can only be worse today.
http://www.amazon.com/Future-Shock-Alvin-Toffler/d ... - SadMartigan, on 01/24/2009, -0/+2This is the first time this saying has made me laugh in over a decade.
Bravo - Barackalypse, on 01/24/2009, -0/+2After reading the Digg comments section for 6 months, I'm convinced it isn't "information" overload that is the problem. So many wrongheaded utterances that are easily disproven with readily available facts.
- inactive, on 01/24/2009, -0/+25 pages, poor design
Buried. - DrHoliday, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1We need Arsenal Gear.
- merlin484, on 01/23/2009, -3/+4That's what she said.
- lewystud, on 01/24/2009, -3/+4the singularity is near
- divinediva, on 01/23/2009, -4/+5The first task involved pressing the correct button in response to one of eight sounds.
- PixelMagic, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1"Being overwhelmed by a continuous maelstrom of information can be just as damaging to our minds as having too little of it..."
No kidding. Just ask Cate Blanchett at the end of Indy 4. - Tanze, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1have you ever heard of the Gutenberg press? people were freaking out back then just as they are now
- serendipitously, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1That seems like a sound philosophy, but being human beings, we all tend to focus on things that re-inforce our beliefs and assumptions. It is a bit dangerous to filter out everything you either don't understand or don't agree with.
As for the 's***' I agree there is a lot of 's***' that somehow masquerading as 'information' - mahadiga, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomaniac
- bshock, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1I'm tempted to call this *****, but perhaps it's just an article about idiots.
I've never had a problem with anything like "information overload" -- most of the time that I'm not connected to my machines, I'm suffering from "information starvation." - Lonandubh, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1tl;dr
- soiducked, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1TMI
- binorgog, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1Shocked the Avocate made it to Digg....
- serendipitously, on 01/24/2009, -0/+1By reading case law.
- Tanze, on 01/24/2009, -1/+1oh my god, somebody else read it!
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -0/+0Early reports indicate a distinct piss-like flavor. Stay tuned for our ongoing coverage.
- ironnoel, on 01/24/2009, -0/+0Yes perhaps learning is no longer the ultimate - but our ability to ignore!
- ironnoel, on 01/24/2009, -0/+0C'mon do we suffer from TV overload ? (well yes some ..)
Whilst more and more information is available to us, as a whole more and more people are confused as to what's important to them. The issue is compounded. A double-whammy!
Once you get CLEAR (eg become an "information overlord" - more focused) - it's all good!! - darladoon, on 01/24/2009, -2/+2actually, it's sort of a stretch to claim that we are absorbing more information now than at any other time in history, as previous human beings would not have had the opportunity to absorb more information than we could now. it's sort unfair to previous inhabitants who may have thought that they, too, were absorbing more information than at any other time in history.
what i'm getting at is: just get off the computer, smoke a joint, listen to some jazz, and/or read a god damn book! - KILLERB00TSMAN, on 01/24/2009, -1/+0My dog just farted
- MCJackhammer, on 01/24/2009, -2/+1BREAKING NEWS: I'm back. Took me 1m26s. As usual, yellowish.
- WildBil, on 01/24/2009, -2/+1Future Shock was written in 1984
- MCJackhammer, on 01/24/2009, -7/+5BREAKING NEWS: I need to take a piss.
- bkurilko, on 01/24/2009, -3/+0No time to read this article because I have to get my comment on the first page here!!! oh snap the irony
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