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Breaking the information logjam. (Computer Savvy).(Brief Article)

Publication: Consumers' Research Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-02
Format: Online - approximately 792 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Today, in the Information Age, we typically think of ourselves as being uniquely inundated with information. But nearly two millennia ago, the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote: "What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in...

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...a whole lifetime? The learner is not instructed, but burdened, by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many."

Still, technology does make the pace of life faster today than in bygone days, and information technology has a way of forcing more data on us than we can handle. To be truly useful, information must be converted to...

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