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Information overload is one of many contributing factors to technostress and job burnout. Frustration with the inability to keep up with change can cause highly intelligent and knowledgeable people to begin to doubt their abilities, lose interest in their careers, and can even cause serious health decline.

1. Data smog: newest culprit in brain drain - By Bridget Murray. Psychologists are beginning to study the impact that information overload is having on our lives. APA Monitor.
2. Dying for Information? - A Report on the Effects of Information Overload in the UK and Worldwide, by Paul Waddington, Coalition for Networked Information.
3. Experts: Information onslaught bad for your health - By CNN Correspondent Kathy Nellis. There's so much data out there that it's making some people physically ill, according to some experts. Psychologists even have a name for the malady: Information Fatigue Syndrome.
4. High-Tech Cars Could Bring Overload - In electronic simulations of driving a vehicle full of high-tech gadgetry, a number of drivers miss their turns or even crash.



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