So says, no less a person than the Chief Technology Officer at Cisco, Padmasree Warrior. In a recent interview she said "multiple streams of data from constant email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter updates are forcing companies and parents to grapple with the growing problem of a short attention span."
This growing degree of information overload can be seen as both a lifestyle issue and a key business concern.
Looking at its effect in the business world, figures published by Basex put the cost of information overload to US economy at "$900 billion per year in lower productivity and throttled innovation".
And many anecdotal articles are being published on the effect of overload on personal and family life.
"Sitting on a hotel-room bed, I looked up from my laptop computer and realized the four of us — me, my wife and our two sons — were all wired and happily oblivious of one another. I was pressing the refresh button on my MacBook for the millionth time to see if a line of thunderstorms on the National Weather Service radar had moved another 50 feet. My 4-year-old son was on a couch tapping random patterns on an iPad drum-kit app. Meanwhile, my 9-year-old son was scanning the Internet on his aunt’s iPad for the latest prices on NFL rookie cards. For her part, my wife was texting soccer scores on her smartphone to friends and family across Tennessee.
So much for good, old-fashioned togetherness."
The problems associated with growing amounts of information and email in our lives is one of the factors that led to the development of Unified Inbox. But not only have we created Unified Inbox (with the goal of stopping overload and starting living), we are also curating the Email/Information Overload Tips series which offers the best of practical advice for todays world.
We invite you to follow the tips or trial the product - all ways of reducing the cost of overload in our lives!
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