information overload

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of an excess of information, or a state of stress which results. uncountable
    — One of the men who has pioneered in information studies, Dr. James G. Miller, director of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, states flatly that “Glutting a person with more information than he can process may . . . lead to disturbance.” He suggests, in fact, that information overload may be related to various forms of mental illness.

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Popularized by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970).
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