infoglut

English

Etymology

From info +‎ glut. Coined by John Naisbitt in 1982.

Noun

infoglut (uncountable)

1. information overload
   • 1984 June 12, R. E. Van Patten, Marjo Maxwell, “A Scientific Database: Conquering Infoglut”, in Bill Machrone, editor, PC Magazine‎^[1], volume 3, number 11, New York: Ziff Davis, →ISSN, page 349:

     Most of us are not fortunate enough to be associated with large universities or government institutions, which are staffed with battalions of professionally trained reference librarians working in magnificient libraries equipped with terminals, printers, modems, and access to the huge (and costly) on-line databases that have sprung up in response to infoglut.

   • 1991, Kenneth M. Sheldon, Byte Magazine‎^[2], page 388:

     Dateline:1995. New York. The Organization of Information Producing Nations met today in New York, in an attempt to deal with what it described as the current infoglut. According to information industry analyst Don Jorak, “Information providers have flooded the market with cheap, easily accessible information, sending the price of information to record low levels. Of course, much of this is low-grade information and requires a great deal of refinement before it can be used.” …Who’s to blame for the current infoglut, the imminent infolock?

Anagrams

• fling out, flouting, outfling