2008: Year of Information Overload?
Nate Anderson,
Edudemic,
Dec 31, 2007
This is a prediction that has gotten some traction in the blogosphere, but as George Siemens comments, "ok, and the last ten years were what?" Perhaps we'll hear more about intelligent software agents and data visualization, but I really don't expect either to make great strides forward in 2008. Nor do I think that problems related to information overload will lead to a new renaissance for libraries. I expect people to respond passively (I mean, is they any other way?) by ignoring information sources that aren't useful to them. What this means in practical terms is that they'll skip more emails, 'mark all as read' more RSS feeds, read fewer websites, journals or publications.
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