5th
“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.”
Marshall McLuhan
Email is the default tool of business communication, whether we like it or not. And we appear to like it. Google wave’s courageous attempt to replace it with something else failed. Instead, every day, our e-mail inboxes are more inundated.
Yet many complain about email overload. Some have even declared email bankruptcy - rather than trying to clean up their inbox with thousands of messages, they have simply reset the counter to zero and start afresh, with a different email address.