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12 Mieczysław Muraszkiewicz
The Met seiz.es our attention only to scatter it. We focus intensively on the medium itself, on the flickering screen, but we are distracted by the mediums rapid-fire delivery of competing messages and stimuli. Whenever and wherever we log on, the Met presents us with an incredibly seductive biur. I luman beings want morę information, morę impressions, and morę complexity', writes Torkel Klingberg, the Swedish neuroscientist. We tend to seek out situations that demand concurrent performance or situations in which [we] are overwhelmed with information’ (Klingberg, 2009, 166-167 - quoted after Carr, 2011).
Noteworthy, surprisingly enough such situations were prophetically predicted by the Nobel Prize poet T. S. Eliot in bis Four Quartets published in the year of 1944:
Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy with no concentration.
This seems to be the best thought-provoking wrap-up of what modern intellectual tech-nologies combined with the information torrent can do to us if we do not learn to control and use them to our advantage.
We have to finish this ehapter by noting that information consumption is basically a sedentary act that often lasts long (while reading longer texts, doing a desk jobs such as preparing an executive presentation or writing a blog or doing a homework, watching a movie, conducting a videoconference, etc.). Having said that let us quote Dr J. Levine of the Mayo Glinie who wrote on his blog5:
Researchers have linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns, including obesity and metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that includes inereased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels. To o much sitting also seems to inerease the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
It seems that these findings do not need any further comments.
3. A remedy
In 1826 Jean Brillat-Savarain published the book IhePhysiology o/Taste that is a masterpiece of the gourmand culture. We can find there the following aphorism:
Ihe destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they nourish themselves.
We believe that we can rightly rephrase this sentence by claiming that the destiny of nations largely depends on the manner in which they consume and make use of information. This rephrased adage should encourage us to start devising, establishing, and implement-ing an information diet strategy, an information trophic pyramid, information firewalls, and filtering routines. Information science that isa multidisciplinary approach to the realm of information has in its arsenał a number of tools that have been specifically conceived and developed for difierent purposes but the information overcharge. However, we think that some of these facilities can be adopted to cope with the information flood, especially
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sitting/AN02082
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