Prompted by this article about changing online habits, in this podcast Nada and I discuss information overload, online etiquette, and research we’ve done on teenage technology use.
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Recently Andrew and I were mentioned in Stefan Stern’s column in the FT on our report looking at managers’ addiction to communications technologies.
Eleven million bits of information are thrown at our senses every second. The human mind is able to process forty bits of information at one time, and can focus on seven (plus or minus two) bits of information at one time. Clearly a lot passes us by—and the information that people are receiving but not processing causes many to suffer from information overload. People try to focus on the forty bits they can process, but they just can’t do it, and they may miss or ignore important things. [...]