Is this the future dream world that consumer electronics has in store for us 17998 years from now? If so, what exactly does this surreal vision imply? An unidentified...

With the expanded and intensified use of the Internet the fear of information overload has begun to spread in technological discourse. The fear is that the “weight” of the enormous amount of information that computer systems produce and users consume will eventually lead to the breakdown not only of the users but of the systems themselves. The brutality of...