Date: 8/8/2018
Category: Blog Post
Tags: Information Overload,newspaper
Source Author: Nathan Zeldes
Source Date: 2/14/2010
Source Name: Nathan Zeldes’s blog
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site
“A weekday issue of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in an entire lifetime in the seventeenth century.” Variants of this statement (give or take a couple of centuries) are commonly seen when reading about Information Overload. Of course I agree that there’s more information available today than back in centuries past, but this particular statement always seemed suspicious to me. Is it true? And what if it is?