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Going to delete the sentence attributing this to Thomasius. I thought it was an interesting way to describe the phenomenon so I went digging for the source. Whoever added here probably got the info from this Hedgehog Review article (archived, https://web.archive.org/web/20120504211249/http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2012_Spring_Wellmon.php). Jumping from the citation, archive.org has the review in question (here, https://archive.org/details/sim_albany-law-journal_1702-03_4_4), starting on page 202. Reading this you can see the nasty text that Wellmon quotes as Thomasius' are the reviewers' words/opinions, and they continue that Thomasius' writing actually argues there is value in the "disease". I couldn't figure out how to re-attribute without making it clunky, unless we want to say "Many Hands" said this.Musicandnintendo (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Given the clear danger of information overload, might not this article be spilt in two? The first part: Information Overload up to the year 2000, and the other: Data Overload in the Twenty First Century? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.182 (talk) 09:54, 22 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Are those topics different? I have doubts. Right now Information overload even mentions information explosion as one of its alt names in the lead. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:40, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

The topics are clearly separate and distinct, as is obvious from a cursory review of their definitions. One refers to the aggregate explosion in the amount of information; the other refers to how individual decisionmakers can be overwhelmed by a massive amount of information. One can lead to the other, but they are not the same thing.

Whomever listed information explosion as an synonym for information overload in the lead paragraph of this article understands neither. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Also, the cited work doesn't actually mention "information explosion" at the pages cited. I'm going to pull that link for failing verification.

I just traced the source of that bad citation. It's this edit on 29 August 2018 by User:Typing.nguyen. Unfortunately, if this citation is that bad, all the other citations inserted by that editor need to be double-checked to verify whether they actually support the propositions to which they were appended. This is not one of my core interests, but I'm flagging the issue for anyone interested in this topic. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Typing.nguyen has been only briefly active. Wonder what is the Wiki Fellow thing he mentions on their userpage - the link is dead. Sigh. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:38, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

The discussion tags should be removed, no merge is needed per above. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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