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Information Overload, Renaissance Edition

November 19, 2009

While the extreme availability of information today should presumably have highlighted its relative paucity in earlier periods, historians–most notably Ann Blair–have in fact extended the concept of “information overload” all the way back to the sixteenth century, arguing that while we now associate the phenomenon with the internet, the printing press had a comparable effect.

via The Colbert Report | The New Republic.

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