This is a book report on Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut is a book about the pitfalls of the information age. The age of today, of tomorrow, of here on out. "Data smog" is the phrase used in the book to express excess technology and information use or consumption in the world we live in. Our world, the author contends, is filled with this smog and we need to find a way out of it. This book is easy to read and to manipulate. The information is backed up, not just by the author's opinion and personal experience, but also by proven fact; it has weight. The chapters are clearly outlined for the reader with the main agenda being, "symptoms of data smog," "how the smog affects our daily lives," and "how to cure ourselves of this smog created by information overload." (Shenk, 1998) The computers are doing great things, he says, but we aren't doing enough for ourselves anymore. And worst of all, we are losing the knowledge to even do it on our own.
