Almost
two thirds
(62%) of
managers
testify their
personal
relationships
suffer
as a direct result
of
information
overload.
 

Many of the
consequences of
cognitive overload
are well described
in business
studies.
In

'Dying for Information?

-- an
investigation
into the effects of
information overload
in the U.K and
World-wide
 
 
 
 
 
 

People interact
       with each other and
with their tools
in little known ways;

they constantly develop
work-arounds to standard
operating procedures,
 and their primary
work space is not confined
to the physical region
within arm's reach,
but is a distributed
cluster of
2D and 3D
spaces
near key resources,
computers,
telephones
and bookcase
 
 
 
 

Demand
side overloading
is the
consequence
of the complexity
of our desire to
function for information