We moved from a culture burdened by information scarcity to one burdened by information glut.

The information glut is most acute in the scientific fields, where the number of journals published in the world now exceeds 40,000.

Are we doomed, in our age of information glut, to rediscover and reinvent what others specializing in different fields have already known for some time?

Or maybe it is simply the fashion civilian's response to an information glut.

The information glut was such that reporters were scrambling to unearth as many new dirty secrets as possible.

But prefiguring responses to today's information glut, The Tribune's design provided readers with signposts that guided them through the paper.

"It's a combination of their short attention span and the information glut."

But now that there are millions of blogs, what was once a solution to the information glut has started to become part of the problem.

That information glut was one of the reasons most tank commanders chose to fight their vehicles from the cupola instead of the closed turret whenever possible.

Adding to the information glut, there's an increasingly large amount of data to read outside of Intelink.