PSYCHOLOGY
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Information Overload: Drinking from a Firehose
We create more information in 2 days than we did from the dawn of civilization to 2003. Our hunter-gatherer brains cannot handle it.
Alvin Toffler• 5 min read
Future Shock
Toffler predicted "Future Shock": the psychological state of individuals and societies defined by "too much change in too short a period of time."
Filter Failure
The problem is not lack of information; it is filter failure. Attention is the scarce resource. You must aggressively curate your inputs, or you will drown in noise.