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    Contents

    CONTENTS

    Foreword : Fighting the Good Fight against Information Bloat

    Preface

    A Note to the Reader

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    The Way Work Was

    The Age of the Knowledge Worker

    Mark Rivington’s Day

    A Global Economy

    Great Moments and Milestones in Information Overload History

    Part I : How We Got Here

    Chapter 1 : Information, Please?

    Chapter 2 : History of Information

    The Information Revolution and the Book

    E-readers Rising

    After the Book . . . Getting the Word Out

    The New News Cycle

    Chapter 3 : Welcome to the Information Age

    Is Software Holding Us Back?

    The Tools We Use

    Mid-Nineteenth-Century Tools: Groundwork Is Laid

    Twentieth-Century Tools: The Foundation for the Information Revolution

    Breakthroughs in Productivity

    Online Collaboration Makes Its Entrance


      

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