Your BlackBerry buzzes with a text from your boss, snapping you out of your Twitter-surfing trance. Your friend calls you and tells you to check out his Facebook profile, as you respond to your spouse ...

The term “information overload” was coined by social scientist Bertram Myron Gross, who used it to describe a phenomenon wherein a system lacks the capability to process a large volume of data. The ...

Our senses send more information to our brains than we can process. Every second, our brains receive around 11 million bits of information. But scientists estimate that our conscious minds can only ...

Modern organizations have an enormous amount of data at their disposal. Every day, hordes of email, internal and external messaging, customer profiles, sales records, and much more pile atop an ...

Unsurprisingly, given the severe nature of the threat of COVID-19 and the economic downturn we are facing, experts are now predicting that the next “epidemic” will be an epidemic of mental illness and ...

A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” for parents (translation: when you feel overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available to you, resulting in ...

Although technology has changed every aspect of life and provided numerous benefits such as easy access to information, better communication methods, time savings, cost efficiencies and more, it has ...

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You can probably tell when your clients are drowning in too much information. Daily bombardments of intra-day trading figures, predictions of doom from TV experts who have no personal stake in the ...

In today’s increasingly digital world, endless amounts of information are readily available at our fingertips. But instead of being helpful, this often leads to confusion, distraction and frustration.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In today’s increasingly digital world, endless amounts of information are readily available at our fingertips. But instead of being ...