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IP: Re: a serious misunderstanding
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 04:29:03 -0400
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 19:04:35 -0700 To: farber () central cis upenn edu (David Farber) From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com> Cc: interesting-people () eff org (interesting-people mailing list) At 5:27 PM 10/2/95, David Farber wrote:
I am surprised at Simon if this is an accurate quote. We live in a world with excess infomation -- TV, newspapers, radio, people, organizations etc. We have learned (at least the successful people) to manage and extract value out of
Dave, your parenthetical phrase is the key. Are the successful people the same as the 'average' people? Are people, in general, good at filtering carefully and extracting the most salient information in a world with a glut of overstimulation. I think not. d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker +1 408 246 8253 Brandenburg Consulting fax: +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker () brandenburg com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA http://www.aimnet.com/~dcrocker/
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