Information Overload

In his new book, Alan Greenspan reveals that he now appreciates the emotional elements that are a part of our individual and collective decision making process. Recently, I ran across some statistics that are staggering and are related to how we can swiftly switch from rational thinkers to lemmings; the average American takes in 34 GBs of data daily. This is an increase of 350% over the last of thirty years. This consists of 100,000 words from TV, radio, the web and print media. We watch 5 ho...