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Infor­ma­tion keeps on bom­bard­ing you every minute in the form of emails, Twit­ter feeds, Face­book stream, Google Reader or Blogs con­stantly shoot­ing more arti­cles. News from 24 hours news chan­nel, news paper or web. Books glar­ing from the library shelf or e-book in our reader or your office repos­i­tory, papers on var­i­ous sub­jects keeps bom­bard­ing on you. This infor­ma­tion feed has become so fre­quent that these keep on flow­ing every sin­gle sec even when you are sleep­ing. Accord­ing to a new study

The speed of mod­ern life is 2.3 words per sec­ond, or about 100,000 words a day. That is the ver­biage bom­bard­ing the aver­age per­son in the 12 hours they are typ­i­cally awake and “con­sum­ing” information.

I don’t think we read all this infor­ma­tion actively we might just glance through over it or hear it. Accord­ing to another study if we add images, such as videos and com­puter games, and we are faced with the equiv­a­lent of 34 giga­bytes of infor­ma­tion each day — enough to over­load the typ­i­cal lap­top inside a week.

Not only this infor­ma­tion is reach­ing us at a fast pace but around the world it is get­ting cod­i­fied (i.e. get­ting con­verted to dig­i­tal for­mat and increas­ing) at a very fast rate with the help of inter­net. In 1930 some group of sci­en­tist said that the infor­ma­tion around the world get dou­ble every 30 years which is almost like a gen­er­a­tion. That was the rea­son for gen­er­a­tional gap because par­ent and chil­dren both would work and gain dif­fer­ent knowl­edge at a dif­fer­ent rate as they would work in dif­fer­ent field caus­ing them dif­fi­cult to under­stand. But by 1970’s that num­ber shrank again to only 7 years. So now if you see your younger brother or lets say your junior in your office they seem to have a dif­fer­ence of opin­ion and a way to look at things. The gen­er­a­tion gap has now evolved in the same gen­er­a­tion with a time line of less than a decades. It is also a chal­lenge for every­body because what he\she has learned 7 years ago changes he\she has to keep up with that knowl­edge. for e.g. poor soft­ware engi­neer who has to keep with the change in tech­nol­ogy and pro­gram­ming lan­guages. Or a nor­mal user who keeps on fid­dling with the new gad­gets which keeps of changing\updating at a fast pace.

But as I said for knowl­edge work­ers like us it has become more dif­fi­cult than ever before. Stud­ies say that in cou­ple of years the infor­ma­tion will get dou­bled every 11 hours. So from the time you go to sleep of sat­ur­day night and wake up late next morn­ing you will be half as stu­pid more as you were last night. As indi­vid­ual we have to learn how to seek infor­ma­tion in an opti­mal way i.e. to get infor­ma­tion in a quick time to keep your self updated. This is nec­es­sary because we have only 24 hours in a day. Its your atten­tion span and how much you can grasp things from this infor­ma­tion bombardment.