Comments on: Future Shock: Information Overload

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:35:18 +0000

Since there’s no hope of keeping up with the flood of media while maintaining a reasonably social and productive lifestyle, I’m setting most of it aside for the last decade or so of my life. I’ll have some kind of comfy chair in which I’ll fall asleep listening to old-timey podcasts, 2D videos, etc. I’ll probably also be peeing myself a bit when stuff is funny.

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By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:27:10 +0000

I’ve resigned myself to knowing that I will die without having read, watched, and listened to everything I want to, and will therefore die unfulfilled.

I also come up with complex OCD-inspired schedules ‘n’ stuff, to try to find ways to forcibly cram all this stuff in, and then don’t stick to them and play 1980s computer games that I had as a kid and have recently downloaded.

By: maura

maura — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:46:46 +0000

Do yourself a favor, Will, and make time for BSG. It’s the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it. (Save Dickens for when it’s cold outside.)

By: Billy P

Billy P — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:09:48 +0000

Is Linda still in cats withdrawal? Wouldn’t a few stray minutes over at cuteoverload.com fix that?

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:45:47 +0000

CATTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:41:43 +0000

Have twins. You won’t have time for any of that self-indulgance.

By: YLlama

YLlama — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:49:51 +0000

Suggestion three: start arbitrarily hating a lot of the critically acclaimed. I have managed to completely avoid listening to Death Cab for Cutie and Arcade Fire by vehemently denying their talent.

By: YLlama

YLlama — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:48:02 +0000

Suggestion one: break plans for face-to-face time and stop sleeping for a couple of weeks. Then start consuming voraciously for several weeks.

Suggestion two: lower your expectations about what you can be expected to accomplish. Drop your Netflix subscription from three at a time to two at a time. Take half of what you intend to read, listen to, or watch and set it in an out-of-the-way place; take it out again in a few months and see whether you’re still interested; if so, put it back in the rotation. Start using the public library, but stop renewing and return everything on time.

By: katey

katey — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:47:13 +0000

i would feel so overwhelmed… oddly enough, mostly by the stuff i had to listen to, because you CAN’T compress that, no matter what. i wonder if that one reason it takes me a long time to get into new music, i hate feeling the pressure to listen to it and get to know it.

and i don’t have any suggestions, your list just made me feel more stressed out.