IP: Re: a serious misunderstanding

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 19:04:35 -0700
To: farber () central cis upenn edu (David Farber)
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com>
Cc: interesting-people () eff org (interesting-people mailing list)


At 5:27 PM 10/2/95, David Farber wrote:
> I am surprised at Simon if this is an accurate quote. We
> live in a world with excess infomation -- TV, newspapers,
> radio, people, organizations etc. We have learned (at least
> the successful people) to manage and extract value out of


        Dave, your parenthetical phrase is the key.  Are the successful
people the same as the 'average' people?  Are people, in general, good at
filtering carefully and extracting the most salient information in a world
with a glut of overstimulation.  I think not.


d/


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