Information anxiety
By: Richard Saul Wurman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Communication; Mass media
First sentence: A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Chapter 1)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 339-348.
Table of contents: title: . 1: The Non-Information Explosion, 31; title: Telltale Signs, 35; title: You Can't be too Rich or too Well Informed, 36; title: A Word in Search of a Definition, 37; title: Anxiety-Proofing Information, 41; title: The Five Rings, 42; title: Access is the Antidote to Anxiety, 45; title: Order Doesn't Equal Understanding, 48; title: What's Missing from this Picture?, 49; title: . 2: The Understanding Business, 51; title: Ode to Ignorance, 53; title: Aesthetic Seductions, 55; title: Just the Facts, Please, 56; title: Personal Table of Contents, 59; title: The five Ultimate Hatracks, 59; title: Vantage Points, 65; title: Classifying Lassie: A Dog Story, 67; title: The Space BetweenThings, 72; title: The Smart Yellow Pages or Your Personal Guide to Living, 74; title: Decision Trees, 79; title: Making America Understandable to Americans, 80; title: In the Beginning is the End, 80; title: . 3: The Conversation, 83; title: The Art of Listening, 86; title: Talk is Deep, 87; title: The Lost Art of Conversation, 89; title: Teaching the President to Talk, 89; title: The Architecture of Instructions, 95; title: Giving Good Instructions, 98; title: . 4: Language: Babel, Seduction, Content, 101; title: Which Came First, Language or Thought?, 104; title: Mind Your Mouth, 104; title: Filler Phrases, 109; title: Language is a Laughing Matter, 111; title: Renaming the Wheel, 112; title: Verbal Geometry, 113; title: Skin Language, 114; title: William Zinsser on Writing, 116; title: The Write Stuff, 118; title: . 5: Landmines in the Undersanding Field, 121; title: Polka Dots on an Edsel, 123; title: Function is to Perormance as a Model T Ford is to a Ferrari, 123; title: Traps, Diseases, and Malaises, 124; title: Communication Equals Remembering What It's Like not to Know, 130; title: Drawing the Line, 131; title: Ed Schlossberg Conversation, 132; title: What You Take for Granted You Cannot Improve, 135; title: . 6: Learning is Remembering What You are Interested In, 137; title: You Can't Get Lost on The Road to Interest, 140; title: Interest Connections, 140; title: Discriminating Between Interests and Obligations, 141; title: Access Guides, 143; title: Getting Permission to Learn, 145; title: The Importance of Being interested, 148; title: . 7: Education is to Learning as Tour Groups are to Adventure, 149; title: Gin-Rummy Memory, 151; title: Sacred Bull Fighting, 152; title: Seeing, Hearing, Expressing, 154; title: Fear of Learning, 154; title: Defensive Expenditures, 156; title: Learning About Learning, 156; title: Conversation with Alan Kay, 157; title: Learning Fantasies, 159; title: Parallel Learning, 161; title: Terror and Confidence, 164; title: information Ownership, 166; title: . 8: You Only Learn Something Relative to Something You Understand, 167; title: Motivating Modles, 169; title: Theme and Variations, 170; title: Learning Means Making Connections, 171; title: How Big is an Acre?, 171; title: The Numbers Game, 173; title: Say I Do or Die, 175; title: Screenplay Rights on Annual Reports, 176; title: Slicing the Pie:  The Nature of Recreation, 179; title: Comparing Components, 184; title: Conversation with John Scully, 184; title: The Joy of Discovery, 187; title: . 9: Haling Failing and Still Sailing, 189; title: An Ode to Error, 191; title: The Proper Management of Failure Breeds Success, 192; title: What You Don't Know is as Important as What You Do, 194; title: Conversation with Paul Kaufman, 196; title: You Won't Believe What Went Wrong, 198; title: The Breaking Point, 199; title: Museum of Failure is Overnight Success, 200; title: Information Bulimia:  A Reading Disorder, 101; title: . 10: The Low-Fat Information Diet, 203; title: Confessions of an Information Junkie, 204; title: Absolutely Essential vs. Guilt, 205; title: Paper Weight-Watchers, 209; title: Resume Verite, 211; title: Resume of Loring Leifer, 214; title: Resume of Sally O'Malley, 216; title: Distinguish Yourself, 218; title: . 11: News Information: Violent Wallpaper, 221; title: Risk Perception, 223; title: Your Personal MediaMeasurimg Stick, 227; title: Everything Takes Place Someplace, 228; title: Converation with Tom Brokaw, 230; title: Orientatio to Events, 235; title: The Glory of Stores, 236; title: Radius of Interest, 239; title: Stream of Consequence, 241; title: . 12: Cultural Information: Personal Vision, 243; title: The Inequity of Perception, 246; title: Selective Perception = Exaggeration, 247; title: As the World Turns, 250; title: Embellish with Flourish, 251; title: Perceptive Perceptions, 256; title: The Map as Communications Currency, 256; title: . 13: Reference Information: The Map or Mankind's Ability to Perceive, 259; title: The Power of Maps, 260; title: Maps as Metaphors, 262; title: Universal Maps, 263; title: Mapmakers, 265; title: Maps of Numbers and Ideas, 269; title: Diagrams and Charts, 271; title: Nowhere Maps, 280; title: Conversation with Josh Wurman, 284; title: User-Participation Maps, 287; title: Taxing Forms, 287; title: Form and Delivery, 290; title: . 14: Technomania: Information as Commodity, 293; title: The Profit Potential, 296; title: Information as Product, 297; title: Taxing Information, 299; title: Conversation with Dick Brass, 301; title: Informational Cacophony, 307; title: More is More Expensive, 309; title: Information Vulnerability Quotient, 310; title: The Rebound Effect, 312; title: . 15: Prescription for Anxiety, 315; title: Fewer, Fewer, Fewer, 317; title: Painless Decisions, 317; title: So Much Information, So Little Time, 318; title: Robust Attitudes, 319; title: Communication Skills, 322; title: Reference Materials, 325; title: Media Habits, 327; title: Information Involvement Inventory, 238; title: A Starting Point, 331; title: . Epilog: Predictions for Understanding, 338