Tag: Overload

The Poetics of Information Overload From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing


Free Download Paul Stephens, "The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing"
English | ISBN: 0816694419 | 2015 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism.

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The Overflowing Brain Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory


Free Download Torkel Klingberg, "The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory"
English | ISBN: 0195372883 | 2008 | 224 pages | EPUB | 751 KB
As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years.

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