We are living in age of Big Data.We are constantly inundated by
all kinds of information and from different and varied sources. No human beings before us ever dealt with the this amount of information we are dealing with now. Information
overload is the first consequences of our constant exposure to too much information. Clay
A, Johnson made a solid and convincing point about this phenomenon when he
proposed The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
. According to Clay :
. According to Clay :“ The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour- so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS Feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets.We are all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much .....”
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
is definitely the best book I have read in
this year. However, to elaborate more on this topic of too much data, I
handpicked for you some awesome TED videos to help you deal with this infinite
data situation we are in. Enjoy
is definitely the best book I have read in
this year. However, to elaborate more on this topic of too much data, I
handpicked for you some awesome TED videos to help you deal with this infinite
data situation we are in. Enjoy
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