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increase, it's scary. Oft quoted, that's why I don't attribute this to anyone, "More information has been produced in the last 25 years than in the past five centuries." But it's not a new problem. In1545, Konrad Gesner warned of "a confusing and harmful abundance of books." He wasn't alone because in 1685, Adrian Baillet had "fear of the multitude of books which growsin a prodigious fashion every day." Now, the cost of all this? We figure that information overload costs the U.S. economy $997 billion in 2010, and I'm probably being conservative. I hate to say it but I'm probably