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WAS ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET AND DO NOT KNOW: Some thoughts on information overload on the Web.

This post would have had to deal with the book "Free culture" of Lawrence Lessig.
two weeks I've been on that comment. I started well, it was decided to express my opinion on the 15 pages I had read the book and add a reference to a few more item. I wanted to settle for comment about the highlights and nothing else. But time was passing and each time I put my head on the computer was always beyond, every word is an idea, every idea a new search, new standards and new information. I started to develop the concept of culture and freedom and ended up in a whirlwind of information end: from the history of copyright to the confusion between art and philosophy, between form and content, "see" and "understand"

Without realizing it, I had thrown day surfing the Internet like a kangaroo between a web page and the other, cutting and pasting, meditating, developing and suffering, killing me to snuff, more lost than a castaway in the middle of the storm. I ended up really broken, fuming over his head and the frustration that the result of working all afternoon was, of course, a comment-Frankenstein unfinished and presentable.

Well, I just heard I suffer from the EO . A INFORMATION OVERLOAD Addiction, addiction information overload. This type of syndrome linking the state of Internet addiction with the stress of information overload that above this technology has implanted in their nature. It treats the info-stress caused by a significant amount of information in a time not enough to "digest" to assimilate. It seems that the overload cause anxiety, inability to make decisions and even illness. In fact, the cognitive overload leads to paralysis of the information, "an inability to focus on information and make a decision.

food metaphor of "bad digestion" non is far from reality. Personally state of unrest in which there is a person subject to this syndrome, I remember the English Court when I buy a pair of shoes: from an almost unlimited variety of model I lose, I can not choose. I always end up going dizzy, happy just to stay with my old sneakers half destroyed.

According to Australian Neville Meyers, computer systems researcher the Queensland University , there are three identifiable types of Internet addicts, according to the way they manage traffic information:

n.1 Topology: The information Hunter syndrome (Indiana Jones);

n.2 Topology: the waiting to receive them (Madame Bovary syndrome);

Topology n.3, which goes to advance the dialogue with them (Diogenes syndrome).

Interestingly, these three topologies are not necessarily far from each other. Backwards. From personal experience I can shoot me an afternoon alternating obsessively reading blogs and newspapers online with a review email continued, accumulating while pages in Word on the desktop, always convinced that "the will consult later because now I have time."

Possible solutions to the problem info-stress, Meyers education hypothesizes a different media, such as deciding not to connect to the Internet after some time . Just parer is the American sociologist Michael Schudson, who theorizes the paradigm shift from the abstract idea of \u200b\u200b"informed citizen", in which the citizen must be informed about anything for rationally participate in public life, the "informational city" ("monotorial citizen"), you have to scan the surrounding environment, avoiding cognitive overload, and be ready to be activated only when their intervention is relevant and effective. To develop the ability and competence to navigate, Schudson presupposes a class of professionals "info-nautical" that could help the city develop its own selective and elective functions.

The philosopher Pierre Levy said: "The first flood was water, the second is the flood of information. " In fact the problem is serious. According to IDC statistics institute ( http://www.idc.com/ ) in 2006 alone there have been 161 exbyte digital information (the "exabyte is a unit of measurement indicating billion gigabyte .) It's a monstrous amount of data. Fold three million times all the books ever written in human history, twelve stacks of Earth to the Sun If you continue with this pace, it is estimated that by 2010 there will be nearly 1000 exabyte of digital information. With that amount of data, industry to manage file systems and data transmission will take an increasingly more important. There is a case that Google is developing a management service for data traffic between universities. We have reached the point that we must continually invent new units of measurement to define the greatest thing: behind the "exabytes" and started using "zettabytes" (100 billion gigabyte "and" yottabyte "(100 thousand million million gigabyte).

A see the end just wondering to where it will end the contemporary man that creative attitude, the gigantism of new Prometheus who climbs to the stars without stopping to reflect that he is doing and where you want to go .... hole over the compass in my head starts to spin. Well, better stop here, think I found a quiet little island in the network. A time can be learned to relax and put the word "end."

to the next wave of bytes.