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Information Overload and
Human Information Needs
Marek Hetman´ski
INTRODUCTION
Finding proper and valuable information and knowledge capable of controlling and managing our
activities in everyday life, science, education, entertainment, or the public domain has become the
focal point for practitioners (computer and information technology engineers, politicians, publish-
ers, and educators) as well as theorists (cognitive and articial intelligence scientists, psychologists,
anthropologists, and philosophers). In the age of “the information turn,” the problem of how to
search, retrieve, process, and convey information in order to realize one ...