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To say Alvin Toffler was ahead of his time is like saying Michael Jordan was pretty good at stuffing a large orange ball through a metal hoop. The futurist coined the term Information Overload back in 1970 to describe the difficulty to grasp an issue or make a decision in the presence of too much information. This was 41 years ago — 23 years before the World-Wide Web emerged.  So either Toffler was himself easily confused by information, or just very prescient (considering his....