Influencing Adaptation: Discourse, values and information and communication technologies

In 1945 Vannevar Bush wrote a provocative article concerning information overload. Although he didn’t use the modern catch phrase, he made ominous predictions for a civilization burdened with too much information; “truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential”. His solution for keeping sight of the ground breaking discoveries of the present and the harsh lessons from humanity’s past was to create more efficient and productive ways of handling data.