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Hey Millenials You Are Suffering from Information Overload
- dalke 11y agoI rather like this quote from Knuth: "Rather than trying to stay on top of things, I am trying to get to the bottom of things." I've recently been learning some of the history of my field, chemical information. That was a Big Data of the 1940s, and many of the information retrieval pioneers presented at and even worked on chemical information management. As a side-effect, I've been reading about the information overload in the post-war era, the information explosion of the 1960s, and the need for 'current awareness' for all the world's literature. Except for a few details, the complaints and issues then are the same as now. I think the headline call out to 'Millenials' is a good one, since it's a lesson each generation has to learn on its own. But it's also one which isn't fully learned by any generation.