I receive a never-ending stream of investment research and news emails in my inbox. Most of them are unsolicited, and I usually ignore them. But a recent email from a respected research firm piqued my ...

A major complaint in many government agencies is information overload. How do you make sense out of all the data coming in and then use it to make a difference? Here's one example. The 911 emergency ...

Despite company efforts to update their information flows with sophisticated new messaging and collaboration platforms, high volumes of information are increasingly the norm for most of the workforce.

For example, just think of the data generated and captured for every online customer purchase transaction on the Internet. It starts with a browser capturing your shopping search initiatives, to ...

The term “information overload” was coined by social scientist Bertram Myron Gross, who used it to describe a phenomenon wherein a system lacks the capability to process a large volume of data. The ...

The inquisitive minds at Aperture explore how information overload is harming our brains. ‘They’re Lying’: Schumer Erupts ...

Many of the founders I have spoken to said one of their biggest early challenges was figuring out how to sift through all the advice they receive. Advice overload plagues everyone and founders have it ...

Are our smartphones a blessing or a curse? Through these phones we are inundated with information via TikTok, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Rumble, bloggers, podcasts, streaming services, ...

Congratulations, we’ve arrived in 1984. Books, television and movies have foreshadowed our eerie relationship with technology since long before 1984. The idea of a reality so perfectly created you can ...

To make matters worse, the information we consume will affect what we consume next, and information overload can negatively affect this process. When this happens, it becomes all too easy to end up ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...