information overload in 1613

Posted: June 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »

“one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the world“

Barnaby Rich (1580-1617), writing in 1613.

5 Comments on “information overload in 1613”

  1. 1 Harry Roberts said at 5:52 pm on June 23rd, 2008:

    That is fantastic! I love stuff like this.

  2. 2 › links for 2008-06-24 said at 1:37 am on June 25th, 2008:

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  3. 3 The Cosmonaut: Information anxiety said at 11:18 pm on August 5th, 2008:

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  4. 4 Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » As We May Think, predicting the web in 1945 said at 3:26 pm on October 22nd, 2008:

    [...] far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record“. Overload is looming (already! the oldest record is 1613 so nothing’s new), bringing it’s usual lot of negative consequences, among which the [...]

  5. 5 links for 2008-06-23 « DigiDave - Journalism is a Process, Not a Product said at 5:22 am on April 5th, 2009:

    [...] information overload in 1613 â??one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the worldâ?? (tags: quote) [...]

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