Rosaline Dou
Single-channel video
2:45
2025
One day, a hot tip landed on my desk: “We consume 174 newspapers’ worth of information every day.” So I started digging. I followed 174 through science journals, news articles, and content farms, only to hit broken links. The deeper I went, the messier it got. Was it 174 or 175? From 2007 or 2011? Was it measuring capacity or actual consumption? Nothing added up.
Then came the twist: the trail ended at a Vietnamese gambling site—yep, a casino! Turns out, stats like “174 newspapers” get hyped, recycled, and distorted in the very process of reporting. The news about information overload is the overload.
Case closed…or is it?
The Telegraph
Remove Paywall
The Drum
Daily Mail
NPR
USC Annenberg
Science
Hilbert and López (2011)
USC Today
Vimeo
ScienceDaily
Hilbert Pre-Pub (2012)
Hilbert CV (2018)
“The Economists” Ideas Economy (don’t click)