Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1468554,00.html
Edmond Warner
Saturday April 23, 2005
The Guardian
Mankind's addictive personality can adapt itself to depend on society's
most modern creations. If it's not Red Bull, reported to be the
unfortunate Paul Gascoigne's latest substance of choice, it is the
compulsive checking of emails and the internet. Stock market traders
will be very familiar with both.
In a study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard, the Institute of Psychiatry
has concluded that sufferers from "infomania" are on the rise. Workers
unable to tear themselves from electronic and phone messages are said
to incur a 10-point decline in their IQ. Work, leisure and sleep are
all disrupted by the terrors of the modern communications age, with the
inevitable consequences for productivity countering the more obvious
advantages bestowed by lightning-quick interaction.
Edmond Warner
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