The Information - James Gleick [232]
♦ “I HEAR NEW NEWS EVERY DAY”: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith (New York: Tudor, 1927), 14.
♦ “TO WHICH RESULT THAT HORRIBLE MASS OF BOOKS”: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibniz Selections, ed. Philip P. Wiener (New York: Scribner’s, 1951), 29; cf. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), 254.
♦ “THOSE DAYS, WHEN (AFTER PROVIDENCE”: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1729) (London: Methuen, 1943), 41.
♦ “KNOWLEDGE OF SPEECH, BUT NOT OF SILENCE”: T. S. Eliot, “The Rock,” in Collected Poems: 1909–1962 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1963), 147.
♦ “THE TSUNAMI OF AVAILABLE FACT”: David Foster Wallace, Introduction to The Best American Essays 2007 (New York: Mariner, 2007).
♦ “UNFORTUNATELY, ‘INFORMATION RETRIEVING,’ HOWEVER SWIFT”: Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine, vol. 2, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1970), 182.
♦ “ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM”: Jacob Palme, “You Have 134 Unread Mail! Do You Want to Read Them Now?” in Computer-Based Message Services, ed. Hugh T. Smith (North Holland: Elsevier, 1984), 175–76.
♦ A PAIR OF PSYCHOLOGISTS: C. J. Bartlett and Calvin G. Green, “Clinical Prediction: Does One Sometimes Know Too Much,” Journal of Counseling Psychology 13, no. 3 (1966): 267–70.
♦ “THE INFORMATION YOU ARE RECEIVING IS PREPARED FOR YOU”: Siegfried Streufert et al., “Conceptual Structure, Information Search, and Information Utilization,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2, no. 5 (1965): 736–40.
♦ “INFORMATION-LOAD PARADIGM”: For example, Naresh K. Malhotra, “Information Load and Consumer Decision Making,” Journal of Consumer Research 8 (March 1982): 419.
♦ “E-MAIL, MEETINGS, LISTSERVS, AND IN-BASKET PAPER PILES”: Tonyia J. Tidline, “The Mythology of Information Overload,” Library Trends 47, no. 3 (Winter 1999): 502.
♦ “WE PAY TO HAVE NEWSPAPERS DELIVERED”: Charles H. Bennett, “Demons, Engines, and the Second Law,” Scientific American 257, no. 5 (1987): 116.
♦ “AS THE DESIRED INFORMATION”: G. Bernard Shaw to the Editor, Whitaker’s Almanack, 31 May 1943.
♦ “DON’T ASK BY TELEPHONE FOR WORLD’S SERIES SCORES”: The New York Times, 8 October 1929, 1.
♦ “YOU HUNCH LIKE A PIANIST”: Anthony Lane, “Byte Verse,” The New Yorker, 20 February 1995, 108.
♦ “THE OBVIOUS COUNTERHYPOTHESIS ARISES”: Daniel C. Dennett, “Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (1990): 132.
♦ “TAKE THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM”: Augustus De Morgan, Arithmetical Books: From the Invention of Printing to the Present Time (London: Taylor & Walton, 1847), ix.
♦ “THE MULTITUDE OF BOOKS, THE SHORTNESS OF TIME”: Vincent of Beauvais, Prologue, Speculum Maius, quoted in Ann Blair, “Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550–1700,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64, no. 1 (2003): 12.
♦ “THE PERCEPTION OF AN OVERABUNDANCE”: Ibid.
♦ “DRIVEN BY THE NEED TO MASTER THE INFORMATION OVERLOAD”: Brian W. Ogilvie, “The Many Books of Nature: Renaissance Naturalists and Information Overload,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64, no. 1 (2003): 40.
♦ “A MAN WHO HAS SOMETHING TO SAY”: Bertolt Brecht, Radio Theory (1927), quoted in Kathleen Woodward, The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (Madison, Wisc.: Coda Press, 1980).
EPILOGUE
♦ “IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT MEANING”: Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), 119.
♦ “WE ARE TODAY AS FAR INTO THE ELECTRIC AGE”: Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), 1.
♦ “TODAY … WE HAVE EXTENDED OUR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS”: Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), 3.
♦ “WHAT WHISPERS ARE THESE”: Walt Whitman, “Years of the Modern,” Leaves of Grass (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1919), 272.
♦ THEOLOGIANS BEGAN SPEAKING OF A SHARED MIND: For example, “Two beings, or two millions—any