information overload
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of an excess of information, or a state of stress which results.
— One of the men who has pioneered in information studies, Dr. James G. Miller, director of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, states flatly that “Glutting a person with more information than he can process may . . . lead to disturbance.” He suggests, in fact, that information overload may be related to various forms of mental illness.
词源
Popularized by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970).
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