The world as information: overload and personal design
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1999
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| adam_text | THE WORLD AS INFORMATION
OVERLOAD AND PERSONAL DESIGN
ROBERT ABBOTT
INTELLECT
EXETER, ENGLAND
TM
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 1
INFORMATION OVERLOAD IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM - THE PLAN OF THE BOOK -
PERSONAL REACTIONS TO THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION - LONGING, NOSTALGIA,
AND
THE COMPULSION TO KNOW
2. RAILWAY ANALOGIES 7
TRAINSPOTTING AS AN ANALOGY OF INFORMATION COLLECTING - HOW TO RESPOND
TO
A WORLD PERCEIVED AS INFORMATION - SACREDNESS AND PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY
- WHAT TO PUT IN THE MIND
3. THE PAIN OF EVERYTHING 21
THOMAS WOLFE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PATHOLOGY OF THE CRAVING FOR
INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE
4. POPPER S WORLDS 37
THE THREE WORLDS MODEL OF INFORMATION - WHAT THESE WORLDS ARE AND HOW
THEY INTERACT
5. DIIRRENMATT S ABSENT LEMUR 51
THE PHYSICAL WORLD AS INFORMATION, ITS CLASSIFICATION AND CAPTURE -
TRAVEL AS
A WOLFEAN ACTIVITY - THE DIRECT EXPERIENCING OF WORLD 1
6. THE UNIVERSE WITHIN 69
THE MENTAL REALM AS INFORMATION - THE STORAGE CAPACITY OF THE BRAIN -
THE
PROBLEMS OF ACCESSING MENTAL CONTENTS - INFORMATION JUNKIES AND MEMORY
MEN - MENTAL MAPS
7. WORLD 3 83
THE EXTENT OF THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION AND THE GROWTH OF LITERATURE -
THE
OUTSIDER PERSONALITY AND THE DESIRE FOR INFORMATION - TRADITIONAL WAYS
OF
ORGANISING INFORMATION INCLUDING LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES,
ABSTRACTING JOURNALS AND DATABASES - ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO
INFORMATION
RETRIEVAL
8. FROM AKASHA TO XANADU : TOWARDS THE WORLD BRAIN 105
WORLD 4 - THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BRAIN CONCEPT - ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND
KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS - KNOWLEDGE BASES - HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA - THE
WORLD WIDE WEB AND NELSON S XANADU PROJECT
9. CONCLUSION - SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INFORMATION AGE 129
THE ECOLOGY OF INFORMATION - TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE - THE
AVAILABILITY OF
ACCESS TO ALL INFORMATION AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS FOR PERSONAL
DESIGN
REFERENCES 143
INDEX 151
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ESTHER WHITBY FOR ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE EARLY
STAGES OF WRITING
THE BOOK, MASOUD YAZDANI AND ROBIN BEECROFT AT INTELLECT, LUCY KIND FOR
HER EXCELLENT
WORK IN EDITING THE MANUSCRIPT, AND CHRISTINE, ROSEMARY AND CAROLINE FOR
THEIR
SUPPORT AND PATIENCE.
THE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY FATHER, GEORGE ABBOTT, AND TO THE MEMORY OF
MY
MOTHER, GWENETH (1918-1998), WHO DIED SHORTLY BEFORE THE BOOK WENT TO
PRESS.
ROBERT ABBOTT
28TH AUGUST 1998
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