I fell in love with email in 1983. I was a computer-savvy educator and children’s librarian teaching teachers about the new technologies available to them. Email came into my life, offering immediate gratification: no stamp, no trip to the post office, no phone tag, no long messages. Questions were answered quickly. Personal exchanges often felt as intimate as a written letter or a phone call, but were immediate and more frequent. Years later, in 1990, ...

One of my masters students happened to dredge up a quote from Herbert Simon that nails the problem of information overload. And then I have to laugh when I see that he was thinking about this back in 1971. This from the description of Attention economy in Wikipedia: "...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 ...