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.
Information Overload, Renaissance Edition
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from jeffmacintyre.com: Information Overload, Renaissance Edition http://bit.ly/2VIFjU
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