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Technology 3/18/2008 10:23:12 AM EST Are You Buried In An Information Avalanche? Although the foundation of today’s Internet was built as a government project more than 40 years ago, relatively few people were using it at the beginning of the 1990s. Then Vice President Al Gore spoke glowingly of the promise of the “information superhighway,” which would improve the conduct of science and scholarship, provide an engine for economic growth, and most importantly, give people access to mountains of information by which to increase efficiency and better their lives. At the time, few of us envisioned that we would eventually become roadkill on the information superhighway or that the mountains of information that technology would deliver to us would spawn “information avalanches” from which many of us struggle to dig out on a daily basis.
If you feel like you spend most of your work day reading through email and wrestling with your PDA, you are not alone. A recent MSNBC.com article describes business’s love-hate relationship with technology, citing, among other sources, a LexisNexis-commissioned Workplace Productivity Survey. According to the article, many workers are having to dig through too much irrelevant information to get to what is truly important or are having trouble finding information they need. The result, somewhat ironically, is that productivity is suffering. It's not all bad news, however, as the article also provides some helpful suggestions for managing email and other sources of information. Gotta wrap this up – my cellphone is ringing, by Blackberry is beeping, and my email Inbox is full.
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