&4 33) Castlegar News _Moy31, 199 Data explosion studied By RON CURRIE The Canadian Press These are the symptoms. You worry when the Dow Jones drops $00 points, although you don’t really know what the Dow Jones is. In cocktail chatter, you refer to the latest new-thought book as being prophetic, but you couldn't even un derstand the book review You're depressed by the éver-higher stack of uriread periodicals. You're chronically talking about not keeping up with what's going on And you're afraid or em barrassed to say “*Ldon’t know.” It’s a clear case. you're suffering trom Information Anxiety Which also happens to be the title of a new book by Richard Saul Wurman, a wendy new-thought thinker modern maladies Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand, Wurman says. ‘*It is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when in too on formation doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know FALLING BACK The gap is ever widening because of the information explosion in communications era computers satellite this transmissions. laserphotos. answering machines, microfilm, fax photocopiers and so on and so on Wurman, who has a glitzy way with word-pictures, puts it this way A weekday ‘dition of the York Times contains more New informat ion than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in 17th-century England.”* The total of printed knowledge now doubles every eight years, and it is estimated that more information has been cranked out in the last three decades than in the previous five millenniums. (You know what a millennium is, right?) No wonder we say, somewhere but I where.”” ADDS TO ANXIETY In a sense, Wurman is adding to the inYormation anxiety with Information Anxiety, a bright and breezy volume that is often amusing and informative but is probably about twice as long as it need be It is also faintly self-promotional, as Wurman devotes a lot of space to ex ploiting his impressive credentials as teacher of architecture at Cambridge University and other institutions, self can't remember proclaimed communications guru and author -and designer of travel guidebooks. Wurman, emphasizes that each of the 15 chapters who lives in Manhattan of his new book is self-contained you can open the book anywhere and read. And the layout is unusual, with lots of bright red print here and there illustrations and graphs and margins containing quotes icisms. broad and wit WAY TOCOPE However, Wurman’s recommen dations on how to cope with the infor jood may not be mation oo helpful Birds of a feather fiock in Creston There are five white pelicans feeding in the Creston Valley Wild life Management Area These large water birds have been yn Leach Lake and Pond 2 the Wildlife Centre along Through the Wetlands Trail The Dike Trail, leaving from the Summit Creek campground, is an easily travelled route to Leach Lake There were nine double-crested cor morants sighted on Leach Lake along with the pelicans It's a great time of year for a walk on the wild side in the Wildlife sighte south the Management Area Bob Purdy The Wildlife Centre is open daily from 9 a.m. to S p.m. This time of year, the song-birds are in full breeding plumage and the males are singing on their territories said spokesman There are also broods of young Canada geese and common goldeneves being seen around the Valley, Purdy says Seniors’ Day is June 17, Kids’ Day is July 1§, and Family Day is Aug 19. 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Excellent Sandwich 3/30 25¢ per response insertion you'll find to your **L read that * If your magazines are piling up, he says rip out the articles you want and toss the rest Make a list of words and terms you know flexible freeze, and forget the should perhaps, or sen rest Plan your information intake the way you would your food diet; What is necessary? How much dq you need to jotics TELEPHONE 365-5210 know for your job? And if none of this works, you're in big rouble because Wurman believes the situation is only going to get worse, with the amount of data burgeoning to catastrophic proportions inthe next 10 years Information Anxiety, by Richard Saul Wurman, Published by Doubleday; 356 pages; $26.95, Business of June. New insertions, copy -— WANTED -— CLEAN COTTON RAGS Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar ges and for the Castl News Directory will be accepted up to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 30 for the month HERMAN” Brian L. 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