The content within systems: its value, behaviour and usability
Simple demonstration showing how easy it is to trick your eyes
Information Overload is so 1971 - via Jack Vinson, May 2008
"...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it" (Simon, 1971, Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World, p 40-41.).
Zillionics - Why more is different - Kevin Kelly, April 2008
¨More is different. Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings. When you reach the giga, peta, and exa orders of quantities, strange new powers emerge. You can do things at these scales that would have been impossible before. At the same time, the skills needed to manage zillionics are daunting... The scale of so many moving parts require new tools, new mathematics, new mind shifts¨