Roger Bohn's Research Featured in The Courier-Mail
Data deluge swamping our brains
06/08/2011
Des Houghton,
The Courier-Mail
The speed of modern life is 2.3 words per second. So says Roger Bohn, from the University of California, San Diego, who reckons we are being bombarded with at least 100,000 words a day more than a 350-page novel.
Our brains are being swamped with so much data that scientists like Bohn are now measuring information flow in zettabytes. Each one equals a trillion gigabytes.
The new information age is on steroids and I fear it is changing the way I think.
Is the deluge of data turning our brains to mush?
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