We are apparently no longer very concerned about information overload. What happened?
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Trump won. And our ability to process information has grown exponentially ever since.
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As says no such thing as information overload just filter failure. We got better at filters.
Also option B - we just renamed it “fake news” and now look.
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It was who taught me that. Perversely the 2004 spike may be directly related to Clay’s work. I also have a feeling that the move from “book internet” to “cable internet”, caused by the silo effects of smart devices and apps, changed the landscape
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who was talking about it a lot in the early aughts? Maybe there was a spike there, a moment of special anxiety?
Or Maybe once it got a few major editorials in 2006 (Nicholas Carr in the Atlantic, Thomas Friedman in NYT) people came around to “this is just how things are now”?








