Ann Blair has a fascinating history of “information overload anxiety” in the Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/11/28/information_overload_the_early_years/?page=full

Michael

NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries Service www.cks.nhs.uk.
Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle Ltd www.schin.co.uk