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• 19 Apr 07
  

  Wisely

  information-overload

  • couple of years ago, Clive Hamilton from the Australia Institute wrote a book called Affluenza. In this book, he defined affluenza as:

     
     
    1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses.
     
    2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the Australian dream.
     
    3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.
  • His thesis was that we work hard to pay off the mortgage and buy material goods but that our growing wealth only serves to increase our desires for more material possessions. Our attachment to money and material possessions robs us of autonomy and fails to deliver happiness. It’s a disease and one that appears for many people, very hard to cure. It’s not affluence that is the problem but affluenza, our attachment to materialism.
• 30 Aug 06
  

  Karla Lopez

  Mania de informação. Um dos sintomas é O RSSis!

  gestao conhecimento comportamento tecnologia

• 23 Aug 06
  

  Nancy White

  " 1. The frustrated, overwhelmed and unfulfilled feeling that results from continued efforts to broaden information or knowledge management systems.
  2. An epidemic of confusion, vendor hype, paralysis by analysis, and suspect decision-making caused

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