Towards a Systems Theory of Organization, 1985, From Data to Wisdom, 1989
“But what started out as a liberating stream has turned into a deluge of chaos. …matters have reached such proportions today that for the average person, information no longer has any relation to the solution of problems. …The tie between information and action has been severed. …It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.”
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
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Source: Information history – an introduction (2009), p. 246.
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 9, Figuring the Odds, How probability measures information, p. 70
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7: Introduction.
" The Dark Side http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/interviews/scheuer.html, PBS Frontline Interview, (22 June 2006).
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"Easy Access?" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec97/library_8-7.html by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (August 7, 1997)