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Moore's Law & Information Overload

If you aren't interested in how your computer works but are interested in how to work effectively on your computer, skip to the bottom of this post for tips on saving time by avoiding info overload!

Do you know about Moore's Law (suggesting computer power doubles every 18 months and technological advances accelerate exponentially)?  Well, Moore's Law has already been debunked but it is still an important theory to consider in understanding the information age. Here's one informational video:
 

And, here's one that discusses more new potentials and proposals for how advances in technology will continue:


In any case, humans are living in the information age! We have a ton of data to work with and choose from, with more and more questions about how to validate sources and wade through the volumes. I heard someone reflect on a reading that asserted a single news magazine contains more information than was transmitted in an entire year during the 1700s... I don't know the source of this comment, looking for it with search terms similar to the words I used there yields a vast number of potentials! E.g. The Atlantic: The Age of Social Transformation and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Overload Then and Now

The Point of This Post

Funny thing is this post was actually intended to share ways of avoiding information overload, namely with this a useful piece about 7 Ways to Fight Information Overload & Save 10 Hours per Month  
instead I just demonstrated how easy it is to get sidetracked in this day and age 😉

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