Early Information Anxiety
The "natural memory of men was dulled by the ‘monstrous images’ concocted in mnemonic arts; the attempts to overload the mind with infinite pieces of information often ’caused madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory.’"
Cornelius Agrippa, 1530
Tags: information anxiety, continuous partial attention, attention, ADD
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