Information anxiety : what to do when information doesn't tell you what you need to know

Information Anxiety offers a cure for the uneasiness most people feel daily as they're overwhelmed with facts and data pretending to be useful information. With simple, creative guidance, this book teaches readers how to learn what they want to learn from the media and other communication sources. "In this breakthrough book, Richard Saul Wurman explains why the information explosion has backfired, leaving us stranded between mere facts and real understanding. In Information Anxiety, he presents a more sensible way to handle the barrage of information we face every day. Using three easy-to-apply principles and hundreds of innovative shortcuts, Wurman shows us how to get the information we really need and how to use it effectively. Fun to read, visually exciting, and continually stimulating, here is your anxiety-proof guide through today's information jungle. Book jacket."--Jacket Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand. It is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know--Title page