information overload

noun

Etymology

Popularized by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970).

Definitions

  1. The inability to process everything one hears and sees

    The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of an excess of information, or a state of stress which results.

    • Some news executives attribute this youthful apathy to information overload and the explosion of media options.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for information overload. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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