Considerably more than "already".

I won't argue with the claim that today we're drowning in information (though if I have to drown I certainly prefer doing it in information than in water). Those of us thirsty (yet another water metaphor) for information continually find ourselves trying to hold a glass to a fire hydrant. Simply deciding what we want to read can take up a good deal of the time we might have devoted simply to reading something. But this sense of information overload that is so often referred to as special to our digital times wasn't even new fifty years ago. Every generation since the advent of print has felt that there's too much to read out there. Daniel Rosenberg, in an article in the Journal of the History of Ideas from 2003 wrote about Early Modern Information Overload, and his article opens with a quote from Denis Dedirot from 1755:

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

And even then the idea was far from original. Ann Blair, in a 2010 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reminds us that in the first century CE Seneca claimed (among other things) that:

the abundance of books is distraction

and a few centuries before then Kohelet (12:12) advised that:

of making many books there is no end

Yes, today there's considerably more "information" available to us than at any other time in history, but it's worth remembering that we don't need an ocean - it's possible to drown in a puddle.

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