Curing information overdose

With all of the content now at our fingertips, we are none the wiser. Why is this, and what can we do?

What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? I bet it is to check your phone. With that, imagine how our mind gets suddenly cluttered with all the emails, tweets and LinkedIn and Facebook updates of other people. If you then switch on the TV news channels, the bombardment of information – mostly unnecessary – is unimaginable.

Infoxication – a combination of the terms information and intoxication ...