The article “Information overload: smartphones are exposing children to an avalanche of irrelevance“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published in The Conversation on Friday 19 June (link here). The article focuses on a yet unnoticed impact of smartphone usage: information overload. The upshot is that it is important to keep the level of noise low, when using a smartphone. The theory behind this observation, and the way forward, are discussed in the article. The screenshot below is from the online article.