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information overloadA symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one person to absorb in an expanding world of technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. It has been exacerbated enormously due to the formidable number of blogs and search engine results.
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| And now, it seems, the various forms of information pollution, too, have proliferated. Now glowing before us each morning on our computer monitors is the unpleasant industrial by-product of our age: information pollution, cybersludge clogging our global information flows and our minds with useless, pointless, even malicious data at a cost to the information industry that can be measured as surely as the grounding of an oil-tanker or water contamination from a chemical plant. |
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