Has technology left us with "too much information":http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html? Unlike ever expanding hard drives, or chip processor speeds, or larger memory chips, the human ability to process information is finite. We are limited by our mental capacities (face it: some people are smarter than others thus will be able to process more information successfully), we are limited by the fact that we only have 24 hours, we are limited by the fact that we only have two hands, two ears, two eyes and a single brain. There aren't any upgrades.
So while the ability of technology to pass information on to us has is ever increasing, we are still the same. Our capacity for info reception and digestion will someday no longer be able to support the input we receive.
bq. Another day in the office, which, according to one recent study, consists of handling 46 phone calls, 25 emails, 16 voicemails, 23 items of post, eight inter-office memos, 16 faxes and nine mobile phone calls. While that sounds scary, its even more alarming to think that those figures - taken from a 2000 survey of companies employing between 100 and 499 staff conducted by Pitney Bowes in partnership with the US-based forecaster the Institute for the Future - are likely to have risen.
With so much information already out there, and you only having 24 hours, just like me and everyone else, what are you doing wasting your time on "this website":http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/visuals/archives/000463.html? :)
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