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Letter: Information ocean

Published 18 May 2011

From Daniel Smith

In “Drowning, surfing and surviving” (2 April, p 30), James Gleick talks of a sense of drowning in a sea of information.

As one born into the information age, I find that instead of suffering from information overload I am more prone to information withdrawal. Being removed from access to the internet can at times be quite stressful, like a fish out of water.

Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2813 published 21 May 2011

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