The term “information overload” was coined by social scientist Bertram Myron Gross, who used it to describe a phenomenon wherein a system lacks the capability to process a large volume of data. The ...

Unsurprisingly, given the severe nature of the threat of COVID-19 and the economic downturn we are facing, experts are now predicting that the next “epidemic” will be an epidemic of mental illness and ...

Posing a question about a hardware or software problem on Google, Bing or other search engine generally returns dozens of results. However, very often, many explanations conflict with others. Which ...

Our senses send more information to our brains than we can process. Every second, our brains receive around 11 million bits of information. But scientists estimate that our conscious minds can only ...

A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” for parents (translation: when you feel overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available to you, resulting in ...

Given the avalanche of information from numerous avenues including e-mail, instant message and syndication feeds, corporate users could start to feel attention fatigue and companies may need to ...

Pediatrician Nicole Baldwin, M.D., fills her days with stuffy noses, routine exams, questions from parents, and the occasional broken arm. But these days, the doctor has another task on her plate: ...

Modern organizations have an enormous amount of data at their disposal. Every day, hordes of email, internal and external messaging, customer profiles, sales records, and much more pile atop an ...

Although technology has changed every aspect of life and provided numerous benefits such as easy access to information, better communication methods, time savings, cost efficiencies and more, it has ...

You can probably tell when your clients are drowning in too much information. Daily bombardments of intra-day trading figures, predictions of doom from TV experts who have no personal stake in the ...