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Drinking from the digital fire hose / information overload

We were appointed two articles to read in class. The first one was a written interviewed that featured Richard A.Lanham, he spoke about the mass amount of information available to us and how we don't know how to handle it. The overload of information is like drinking from a fire hose, it becomes too much handle and then it becomes a waste. So on the interview Lanham speaks about how to take in all the information and also how to get as much out of it as possible but though he gives tips; he does mention trying to contain all the information given to us is nearly impossible. Especially with the massive amount already there with tons more coming in rapidly. The second article kind of touched based on similar issues; was spoke more on how students are limiting themselves on the amount of information we are possible of obtaining. Dr.Nichols also mentions how students aren't the only one to blame for that. Teacher tend to restrict the source students are allowed to use which someti