"Information overload" Our society is changing at an incredible speed. We can only digest a certain amount of information during a certain period of time. "Information used to be scarce and having more of it was considered a good thing; it seems that we now have reached the point of saturation, and need to limit our use of it." Our minds can't seem to cope with such an increasing rate of change and such an amount of new information. This information overload in turn causes side-effects such as fatigue, work deficiency, etc.