Noreena Hertz Quotes

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

There is simply too much to think about.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.

We are drowning in information.

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.