The Information Diet
Subtitle: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sebastopol, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781449304683
Description: "The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour--so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets.We're all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness"--
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: VII; label: PART I
title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Lessons from Obesity
pagenum: 9; label: Chapter 2
title: Information, Power, and Survival
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter 3
title: Big Info
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter 4
title: We Are What We Seek
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 5
title: Welcome to Information Obesity
pagenum: 53; label: Chapter 6
title: The Symptoms of Information Obesity
pagenum: 63; label: PART II
title: THE INFORMATION DIET
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 7
title: Data Literacy
pagenum: 79; label: Chapter 8
title: Attention Fitness
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 9
title: A Healthy Sense of Humor
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 10
title: How to Consume
pagenum: 101; label: PART III
title: SOCIAL OBESITY
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter 11
title: The Participation Gap
pagenum: 125; label: A Special Note
title: Dear Programmer
pagenum: 141; label: Appendix A
title: Further Reading
pagenum: 146