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Information anxiety
1st ed.
Richard Saul Wurman.
Published
1989
by
Doubleday
in
New York
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Written in English.
First Sentence
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Chapter 1)
Table of Contents
| . 1: The Non-Information Explosion, 31 | ||
| Telltale Signs, 35 | ||
| You Can't be too Rich or too Well Informed, 36 | ||
| A Word in Search of a Definition, 37 | ||
| Anxiety-Proofing Information, 41 | ||
| The Five Rings, 42 | ||
| Access is the Antidote to Anxiety, 45 | ||
| Order Doesn't Equal Understanding, 48 | ||
| What's Missing from this Picture?, 49 | ||
| . 2: The Understanding Business, 51 | ||
| Ode to Ignorance, 53 | ||
| Aesthetic Seductions, 55 | ||
| Just the Facts, Please, 56 | ||
| Personal Table of Contents, 59 | ||
| The five Ultimate Hatracks, 59 | ||
| Vantage Points, 65 | ||
| Classifying Lassie: A Dog Story, 67 | ||
| The Space BetweenThings, 72 | ||
| The Smart Yellow Pages or Your Personal Guide to Living, 74 | ||
| Decision Trees, 79 | ||
| Making America Understandable to Americans, 80 | ||
| In the Beginning is the End, 80 | ||
| . 3: The Conversation, 83 | ||
| The Art of Listening, 86 | ||
| Talk is Deep, 87 | ||
| The Lost Art of Conversation, 89 | ||
| Teaching the President to Talk, 89 | ||
| The Architecture of Instructions, 95 | ||
| Giving Good Instructions, 98 | ||
| . 4: Language: Babel, Seduction, Content, 101 | ||
| Which Came First, Language or Thought?, 104 | ||
| Mind Your Mouth, 104 | ||
| Filler Phrases, 109 | ||
| Language is a Laughing Matter, 111 | ||
| Renaming the Wheel, 112 | ||
| Verbal Geometry, 113 | ||
| Skin Language, 114 | ||
| William Zinsser on Writing, 116 | ||
| The Write Stuff, 118 | ||
| . 5: Landmines in the Undersanding Field, 121 | ||
| Polka Dots on an Edsel, 123 | ||
| Function is to Perormance as a Model T Ford is to a Ferrari, 123 | ||
| Traps, Diseases, and Malaises, 124 | ||
| Communication Equals Remembering What It's Like not to Know, 130 | ||
| Drawing the Line, 131 | ||
| Ed Schlossberg Conversation, 132 | ||
| What You Take for Granted You Cannot Improve, 135 | ||
| . 6: Learning is Remembering What You are Interested In, 137 | ||
| You Can't Get Lost on The Road to Interest, 140 | ||
| Interest Connections, 140 | ||
| Discriminating Between Interests and Obligations, 141 | ||
| Access Guides, 143 | ||
| Getting Permission to Learn, 145 | ||
| The Importance of Being interested, 148 | ||
| . 7: Education is to Learning as Tour Groups are to Adventure, 149 | ||
| Gin-Rummy Memory, 151 | ||
| Sacred Bull Fighting, 152 | ||
| Seeing, Hearing, Expressing, 154 | ||
| Fear of Learning, 154 | ||
| Defensive Expenditures, 156 | ||
| Learning About Learning, 156 | ||
| Conversation with Alan Kay, 157 | ||
| Learning Fantasies, 159 | ||
| Parallel Learning, 161 | ||
| Terror and Confidence, 164 | ||
| information Ownership, 166 | ||
| . 8: You Only Learn Something Relative to Something You Understand, 167 | ||
| Motivating Modles, 169 | ||
| Theme and Variations, 170 | ||
| Learning Means Making Connections, 171 | ||
| How Big is an Acre?, 171 | ||
| The Numbers Game, 173 | ||
| Say I Do or Die, 175 | ||
| Screenplay Rights on Annual Reports, 176 | ||
| Slicing the Pie: The Nature of Recreation, 179 | ||
| Comparing Components, 184 | ||
| Conversation with John Scully, 184 | ||
| The Joy of Discovery, 187 | ||
| . 9: Haling Failing and Still Sailing, 189 | ||
| An Ode to Error, 191 | ||
| The Proper Management of Failure Breeds Success, 192 | ||
| What You Don't Know is as Important as What You Do, 194 | ||
| Conversation with Paul Kaufman, 196 | ||
| You Won't Believe What Went Wrong, 198 | ||
| The Breaking Point, 199 | ||
| Museum of Failure is Overnight Success, 200 | ||
| Information Bulimia: A Reading Disorder, 101 | ||
| . 10: The Low-Fat Information Diet, 203 | ||
| Confessions of an Information Junkie, 204 | ||
| Absolutely Essential vs. Guilt, 205 | ||
| Paper Weight-Watchers, 209 | ||
| Resume Verite, 211 | ||
| Resume of Loring Leifer, 214 | ||
| Resume of Sally O'Malley, 216 | ||
| Distinguish Yourself, 218 | ||
| . 11: News Information: Violent Wallpaper, 221 | ||
| Risk Perception, 223 | ||
| Your Personal MediaMeasurimg Stick, 227 | ||
| Everything Takes Place Someplace, 228 | ||
| Converation with Tom Brokaw, 230 | ||
| Orientatio to Events, 235 | ||
| The Glory of Stores, 236 | ||
| Radius of Interest, 239 | ||
| Stream of Consequence, 241 | ||
| . 12: Cultural Information: Personal Vision, 243 | ||
| The Inequity of Perception, 246 | ||
| Selective Perception = Exaggeration, 247 | ||
| As the World Turns, 250 | ||
| Embellish with Flourish, 251 | ||
| Perceptive Perceptions, 256 | ||
| The Map as Communications Currency, 256 | ||
| . 13: Reference Information: The Map or Mankind's Ability to Perceive, 259 | ||
| The Power of Maps, 260 | ||
| Maps as Metaphors, 262 | ||
| Universal Maps, 263 | ||
| Mapmakers, 265 | ||
| Maps of Numbers and Ideas, 269 | ||
| Diagrams and Charts, 271 | ||
| Nowhere Maps, 280 | ||
| Conversation with Josh Wurman, 284 | ||
| User-Participation Maps, 287 | ||
| Taxing Forms, 287 | ||
| Form and Delivery, 290 | ||
| . 14: Technomania: Information as Commodity, 293 | ||
| The Profit Potential, 296 | ||
| Information as Product, 297 | ||
| Taxing Information, 299 | ||
| Conversation with Dick Brass, 301 | ||
| Informational Cacophony, 307 | ||
| More is More Expensive, 309 | ||
| Information Vulnerability Quotient, 310 | ||
| The Rebound Effect, 312 | ||
| . 15: Prescription for Anxiety, 315 | ||
| Fewer, Fewer, Fewer, 317 | ||
| Painless Decisions, 317 | ||
| So Much Information, So Little Time, 318 | ||
| Robust Attitudes, 319 | ||
| Communication Skills, 322 | ||
| Reference Materials, 325 | ||
| Media Habits, 327 | ||
| Information Involvement Inventory, 238 | ||
| A Starting Point, 331 | ||
| . Epilog: Predictions for Understanding, 338 |
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 339-348.
Classifications
| Dewey Decimal Class | 302.2 |
| Library of Congress | P90 .W8 1989 |
The Physical Object
| Pagination | 356 p. : |
| Number of pages | 356 |
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