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Technological Developments
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Scientific and have real and direct effects on every person\\'s life. Some effects are desirable; others are not. Some of the desirable effects may have undesirable side effects. In essence, there seems to be a trade-off principle working in w .... Middle of Term Paper
... we cannot keep up, can\\'t take it all in, that we are being overwhelmed by information, deluged by data: the sense of an \\"information overload.\\"
One of the first attempts to represent this kind of information overload appears in Ted Mooney\\'s 1981 novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets. There, Mooney describes \\"A Case of Information Sickness\\" in the following terms:
If information was once considered the solid ground, the \\"factual\\" basis, on which to make decisions and take actions, it no longer seems to be so. Indeed, information no longer seems to be solid at all. Not only does it not provide a grounding, a foundation, from wh ... |
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