Information overload
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"Information overload" is a term popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock. It refers to the difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information.
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Related terms
- The similar term information pollution was coined by Jakob Nielsen in 2003
- The term interruption overload has begun to appear in newspapers such as the Financial Times.
- "TL;DR" (too long; didn't read), another initialism alluding to information overload, this one normally used derisively.
- Analysis paralysis
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive load
- Continuous partial attention
- Internet addiction
- Learning curve
- Memory
- Multi-tasking
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See also
- Age of Interruption
- Analysis paralysis
- Attention economy
- Attention management
- Bibliomania
- Culture shock
- Exocortex
- Filter bubble
- Glass cockpit
- Infodemic
- Information–action ratio
- Information ecology
- Information explosion
- Information filtering system
- Information management
- Information pollution
- Lexicographic information cost
- Museum fatigue
- Overchoice
- Stress management
- Technological singularity
- Time management
- TL;DR
- Too Much To Know, a 2011 book about information overload
- Accelerando, a 2005 science fiction novel about information overload and accelerating change
- Data Smog, a 1997 book about information overload
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