Table of Contents

Praise for The Information Diet; Dedication; Preface; We’d Like to Hear from You; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Lessons from Obesity; 1.1 A Modern Epidemic; 1.2 The Birth of Industrial Agriculture; 1.3 A New Set of Consequences; 1.4 The Modern Diet; Chapter 2: Information, Power, and Survival; 2.1 Knowledge Is Power; 2.2 There Is No Such Thing as Information Overload; Chapter 3: Big Info; 3.1 Choice Lessons; 3.2 Seek and We Shall Profit; Chapter 4: We Are What We Seek; 4.1 Reality Dysmorphia; 4.2 This MSNBC Is Going Straight to My Amygdala; 4.3 Search Frenzy; Chapter 5: Welcome to Information Obesity; 5.1 Confident Ignorance; 5.2 Agnotology; 5.3 Epistemic Closure; 5.4 Filter Failure; Chapter 6: The Symptoms of Information Obesity; 6.1 The Connection Between Obesities; 6.2 Apnea; 6.3 Poor Sense of Time; 6.4 Attention Fatigue; 6.5 Loss of Social Breadth; 6.6 Distorted Sense of Reality; 6.7 Brand Loyalty; Part II: The Information Diet; Chapter 7: Data Literacy; 7.1 Search; 7.2 Filter; 7.3 Creation; 7.4 Synthesis; Chapter 8: Attention Fitness; 8.1 Willpower; 8.2 Measurement; 8.3 Elimination; 8.4 Training; 8.5 Distractibility Can Be Good; Chapter 9: A Healthy Sense of Humor; Chapter 10: How to Consume; 10.1 Consume Consciously; 10.2 Consume Locally; 10.3 Low-Ad; 10.4 Diversity; 10.5 Balance; 10.6 Support and Fine Tuning; Part III: Social Obesity; Chapter 11: The Participation Gap; 11.1 The Scalability Problem; 11.2 Transparency; 11.3 Bridging the Gap; 11.4 Political Infoveganism; A Special Note: Dear Programmer; Further Reading; People; Books; Blogs;