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 ...

Our senses send more information to our brains than we can process. Every second, our brains receive around 11 million bits of information. But scientists estimate that our conscious minds can only ...

Modern organizations have an enormous amount of data at their disposal. Every day, hordes of email, internal and external messaging, customer profiles, sales records, and much more pile atop an ...

A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” for parents (translation: when you feel overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available to you, resulting in ...

Unsurprisingly, given the severe nature of the threat of COVID-19 and the economic downturn we are facing, experts are now predicting that the next “epidemic” will be an epidemic of mental illness and ...

Given the avalanche of information from numerous avenues including e-mail, instant message and syndication feeds, corporate users could start to feel attention fatigue and companies may need to ...

Information overload occurs when you consume so much, from so many different sources, that it negatively impacts your judgment and well-being. During the early days of the pandemic, when it was ...

You can probably tell when your clients are drowning in too much information. Daily bombardments of intra-day trading figures, predictions of doom from TV experts who have no personal stake in the ...

Information overload is emerging as a hidden safety risk in aviation. Synapse Aviation’s Airport Briefing reduces cognitive ...

Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler and save us time. In many ways, it's done just the opposite. Last month, we took a look at how often our gadgets let us down, and how screen-based ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In today’s increasingly digital world, endless amounts of information are readily available at our fingertips. But instead of being ...