A post at The Infography Manifesto Blog sums up the problem quite well. According to this post, a “person dealing with information overload has difficulty finding information that’s relevant to help them make decisions.” It also defined information anxiety as: A condition “produced by the ever widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand… the black hole between data and knowledge… when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.
A one-post blog by the same author of The Infography Manifesto aptly states that there are “175,000 new blogs created every day … and this is one of them.”
This has been said a thousand times in a thousand ways, but it resonates with me every time I read things like this. It also motivates me to spend time researching potential solutions to this problem.
My favorite part of the blog posting referenced in the first paragraph is a quote from Einstein stating that “we cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” That is certainly true, and I have been reading about – and experimenting with – some fresh ideas. I plan to write more about this in future posts.
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