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What good is it to have all of the world’s knowledge at your fingertips if you don’t have the bandwidth to prioritize it, or the expertise to know if it is competent? At one time we had a scarcity of information, but today our attention is in the midst of a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building a social knowledge base with Knovigator
No matter how much time I spend catching up on all the interesting links in my inbox, the Internet generates content way faster than I am able to consume it.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #43
Nassim Taleb on the “Signal vs. Noise Bottleneck”:
"We think the more information we consume the more signal we’ll consume. Only the mind doesn’t work like that. When the volume of information increases, our ability to comprehend the relevant from the irrelevant becomes compromised. We place too much emphasis on irrelevant data and lose sight of wha
... See moreWhat they discovered is there is one mechanism that can make this happen every time. You just have to flood the system with more information. The more information you pump in, the less time people can focus on any individual piece of it.