Are we on information overload? (2012)
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Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#2Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#3Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
Not just news papers. The entire aggegrate output of "media industry" with it's various forms of text, audio, video, games is a deluge ("X days of video uploaded every minute", a dozen or more games come out on Steam every day and that's just Steam).
Take not just momentary but also the historical output and you're looking at an amount that is by many orders of magnitude overwhelming the comprehension capacity of any single observer, arguably even for the metadata.
Is anybody even trying to keep track? Most of this can't be made to last...
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#4Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
I also pay for the Economist. It was key to keeping my sanity during the news cycle in 2020.
But somehow what I actually read is Hacker News and has been for 10 years. The only thing that keeps staying.
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#5Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
I also pay for the Economist. It was key to keeping my sanity during the news cycle in 2020. But somehow what I actually read is Hacker News and has been for 10 years. The only thing that keeps staying.
So you don’t regularly read The Economist? Why don’t you just cancel your subscription already?
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#6We're definitely on information overload article overload, seems like there's one every week.
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#7We're definitely on information overload article overload, seems like there's one every week.
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Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#8Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
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Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#9It was a question back in 2012. Today nobody has any doubts anymore.
Re: Are we on information overload? (2012)
#10It was a question back in 2012. Today nobody has any doubts anymore.
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