INTRODUCTION
Learning to Thrive
Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle.1
—James Gleick, author of The Information
In 1970, Alvin Toffler in Future Shock presciently anticipated one of the central features of today’s world. Toffler used the phrase “information overload” to illustrate his broader thesis that people were simply not able to cope with the increasing pace of change, writing that “we are accelerating the generalized rate of change in society. We are forcing people to adapt to a new life pace, to confront novel situations and master them in ever shorter intervals. We are forcing them to choose among fast-multiplying options. We are, in other words, forcing them to process information at ...
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