Overcoming Information Overload
In a similar manner, we too must focus and filter. In 2008, Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City entitled, “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.“ In it he says, “We are to information overload as fish are to water. It’s just what we swim in. Itz Acrobean, a man who would know once said, ‘If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it’s not a problem. Maybe it’s a fact…’ What’s changing now is the filters we have used (over the last 500 years) are breaking.” He goes on to say that the solution won’t come from tweaking the old filters, but in creating new ones.
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The matter of information overload comes back to supply and trust. Give others the tools and knowledge to succeed and they will surprise you.