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Information Overload's 2,300-Year-Old History -

(businessweek.com): The overload we experience today—millions of Google search results in a fraction of a second—has its costs, but it is also a privilege, the result of the efforts of generations of accumulation before us and of massively increased access to the consumption and production of information in the digital age. Yes, overload creates problems, but it has also inspired important solutions—methods of selecting, summarizing, sorting and storing first devised centuries ago and that still work today, as well as new ones no doubt forthcoming.

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