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Information anxiety
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Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand. It is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when info...
Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand. It is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
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- Creator
- Richard Saul Wurman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Doubleday, 1989
- Physical Details
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- 356 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0385243944, 9780385243940
- OCLC
- ocm18442022
- Bibliography: pages 339-348.
- The non-information explosion: more data is not the same as better information -- The understanding business: you don't have to know everything, you just need to know how to find it -- The conversation -- Language: Babel, seduction, content -- Landmines in the understanding field -- Learning is remembering what you are interested in -- Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure -- You only learn something relative to something you understand -- Hailing failing and still sailing: magnificent failures: da Vinci, et. al. -- The low-fat information diet -- News information: violent walpaper -- Cultural information: personal vision -- Reference information: the map or mankind's ability to perceive -- Technomania: information as commodity -- Prescription for anxiety -- Predictions for understanding