Few people know their way around startups like Paul Graham. In 1995, as a software programmer with a CS PhD from Harvard, he co-founded Viaweb (with Robert Morris). The Internet’s first application service provider. it allowed users to build and host an online store from within their own browser. Viaweb was bought three years later [...]
Battling the Information Overload Enemy
June 12, 2009 By
Back in 1990, when few people had used a computer or received an email, futurist Alvin Toffler warned in his book, PowerShift, about something he called “Information Overload.” Amazingly, Toffler foresaw the soon-to-be explosion of information, as well as the resultant difficulty people would have in processing and absorbing excess information. It’s all quite easy [...]
