Almost the general case in our noisy, joined-up world I would have thought, Brian.
That is, a wealth of pretty images, and "information", with the vast majority of it, shall we say, lacking in substance!
I hear there are people about these days who are paid to sift through the mountains of crap thrown at us all on line each day, just so they can present a concise one-page summary to the well-placed, but busy (and wealthy) "movers and shakers". The Wheat from the Chaff, Need to Know, and all that.
I hasten to add that I fall into neither category myself (although I do like to cut through the crap, as it were, when at all possible).
Meanwhile the rest of us (the plebs) have to make do with sources like the
Drudge Report. And, of course,
this forum! But again, there are so many tech forums available now, it can be all too easy to waste half a day on those as well!
Yes. Too much information? Can there be
too much? Are those forums really a waste of time ... or simply educational, insightful, opinion forming, and all the rest? A good thing, or bad? Discuss!
But (before I go) ... I would say (and forgive me if it's stating the obvious) that the internet has changed the face of biomed. For sure. And for the better (once again I'm thinking here of a helping hand to our biomed buddies "overseas").
