Information Age Overload – Every Day Average Person Produces Six Newspapers Worth of Information

Information_Overload

We receive 5 times more information today than we did in 1986.

If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you may be right – a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day.   The growth in the internet, 24-hour television and mobile phones means that we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986.