Great blog entry from Frank Chimero regarding the craze surrounding information overload. Basically it\'s a little history lesson on how people have felt this way for a very long time:

A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was both “confusing and harmful” to the mind. The media now echo his concerns with reports on the unprecedented risks of living in an “always on” digital environment. It’s worth noting that Gessner, for his part, never once used e-mail and was completely ignorant about computers. That’s not because he was a technophobe but because he died in 1565. His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press.

He goes into a lot more than that so I suggest you read the whole thing but I think it brings up some curious potential discussions regarding the evolution of man and how technology plays a role in that change. Evolution doesn\'t have to mean a positive change.. just a shift in behavior that eventually encodes itself deep in the underlyings of how we all work. I think it\'s happening to some degree.