Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times Riggs manages to capture voices and stories that add insights into black identity in compelling and straightforward ways. However, it is frustrating that these successes are drowned out by cinematic special effects and an overload of other voices and issues...
...play virtual racketball with a sibling or childhood friend in a distant city. But at least in its current form, the Net brings no visual (much less tactile) contact, and so doesn't fully gratify the social machinery in our minds. More generally the Net adds to the information overload, whose psychological effects are still unknown but certainly aren't wholly benign...
...MOOs, caffeine and sugared cereals. For months, such was the life of J.C. Herz '93, former CrimeEd, as she immersed herself in the culture and subculture of the Internet to research her debut effort, Surfing The Internet (Little, Brown, & Co). The result of sleep deprivation and stimulant overload is a sassy, hypercharged piece of cyberculture shock which reads like an extended Internet session and takes J.C. to the furthest points of cyberspace and back. Through virtual worlds full of meaningless babble and technological romance, around connection obstacles and cultural consequences, Herz's faster-than-a-speeding-bullet style whizzes through...
...writing called Surfing on the Internet. She yakked with people on Internet Relay Chat, vamped in simulated worlds known as muds, foundered in E-mail and bombarded her brain with Usenet newsgroups carrying names like alt.alien.visitors. Finally, she couldn't take another bit. "It was the classic information overload, toxic-data syndrome," she says, with more and more messages to read and less and less time to read them. The Internet "stopped looking like some kind of theme park and started looking like a Sartrean hell-too many people talking at one time...
...juggle about 350 users at a time. Although only about 300 users are logged directly into fas at a given moment, Steen estimates 400 other users are making home directory requests from alternate machines. Most users are all too familiar with how 700 users requesting service can quickly overload...