Scott McLemee Ponders Information Overload

by Jane Ciabattari | Nov-27-2008

Scott McLemee, reviewing “The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory” (Oxford University Press) by Torkel Klingberg, ponders information overload:”...it sometimes feels like one’s brain is being nibbled by carnivorous gnats.”




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