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 ...

AI can summarize reports, pull data, and deliver insights in seconds. That kind of speed sounds like it should make work easier, but in many cases, it has only made information overload worse. The ...

When it comes to pollution of our surrounding environment, we often think about how human activity affects the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the food we eat. At team of researchers at ...

Your BlackBerry buzzes with a text from your boss, snapping you out of your Twitter-surfing trance. Your friend calls you and tells you to check out his Facebook profile, as you respond to your spouse ...

A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” in parents (translation: when a parent feels overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available, resulting in feeling ...

Our brains are simply not equipped to handle all the information we’re trying to stuff into them. That’s the (paraphrased) sentiment of Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais, a 13th-century monk, who ...