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A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was both "confusing and harmful" to the mind. The media now echo his concerns with reports on the unprecedented risks of living in an "always on" digital environment. It's worth noting that Gessner, for his part, never once used e-mail and was completely ignorant about computers. That's not because he was a technophobe but because he died in 1565. His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press

Future of the newspaper looks grim.

This is an article I have been waiting for. Interesting to start to see the future of news. Yet, I still wonder how many people are getting their news from sources other than print or TV.

You just have to let your kids go nuts with this one.

While unlikely, this just jumps up at me. As Josh wrote in the diigo notes for the page, what if we did this for schools?

This one makes me think.

Print Media and Textbooks: by way of the dodo bird.

Some of these are very pertinent to what we are doing and show the amazing diversity of what we can accomplish.

What do you make of this? How does it affect your future? Your students'?

write a letter to the future prseident

So cool, yet so sobering.

Wow very interesting - I'm printing this out!