What Info-Besity Does to Your Brain
I wish I’d written this. Let’s all wake up!
Don’t know how to handle the flood of information that streams into your life daily? Don’t know what to do with the 100,000+ smartphone and tablet apps being released every year? What if you want to pare down and sharpen your focus? Say, winnow things down to only the 40,000 – 50,000 peer-reviewed neuroscience papers published every year? One way to deal with the overwhelm is to go shopping – spend an hour or two sorting through the 120,000 items the average Walmart carries or the 40,000 items your typical supermarket stocks.
The amount of raw data available in today’s world has far outstripped my brain’s and your brain’s ability to process it. My IT pals tell me that since 1986 the amount of information constantly streaming into our lives – on the job, at home, in our dreams – has increased five-fold. We, the overwhelmed and weary, deserve…
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