information overload
nounEtymology
Popularized by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970).
Definitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA