Information famine occurs when one seeks specific information about certain issue or subject to end up with no significant results. Information around or near may be plenty but these are of less importance. In the past, I used to assign well-defined topics for students to conduct literature survey about and many times, they will gather lot of close information but not the information about the particular thing that is aimed at simply because they found nothing. Superficially, one may think that there is abundance of information "many libraries, many websites...". Actually, when one gets down to the nitty-gritty of finding information ,e.g. about establishing a small industry, there is almost information famine in many cases.

Information, each, can cause curiosity, and after some time turn into a lack of knowledge. The more we think about the collected messages, the more we come to the conclusion that something we do not know. And this consciousness of ignorance when large amounts of data that hunger resulting from their excess and often a lack of systematization.

Global communication is about protecting and enlarging freedom of expression for all our citizens and giving individual citizens the power to create the information they need and want from the abundant flow of data they encounter. The goal of the network is to obtain the specific goal of research question and hence become abundant. The long term objective for the network is hence to obtain the goal intended. Dealing with the abundance of information and sources by effective screening filters can result in missing out on information from new and unexpected information sources and contacts 

http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1357413&fileOId=1357414

WE live in revolutionary times. Information moves around the world at the speed of light and is duplicated endlessly, available to anyone with a connection.

"For good and ill," writes Charles Seife in Virtual Unreality, "digital information is now the most contagious thing on the planet."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229720.900-information-famine-at-the-centre-of-the-infosphere.html#.VZpTGY0Vh9A

Information famine occurs when one seeks specific information about certain issue or subject to end up with no significant results. Information around or near may be plenty but these are of less importance. In the past, I used to assign well-defined topics for students to conduct literature survey about and many times, they will gather lot of close information but not the information about the particular thing that is aimed at simply because they found nothing. Superficially, one may think that there is abundance of information "many libraries, many websites...". Actually, when one gets down to the nitty-gritty of finding information ,e.g. about establishing a small industry, there is almost information famine in many cases.

Yes, actually news and information propagate at the speed of light, but żetelne information are still restricted. Whenever we need some specific data, it appears that there is little need mnustwo messages, and these particular always little, except that it concerns the problem very well-understood. It seems to me that it would be good to collect data portals, with slightly badziej zacieśnionymi keywords, so that searching for information, eg. Of essential oil of pine does not receive information about the processing of wood.

I do not think news media will run out of news to talk about to the extent of "famine". The world is getting more chaotic and more troubling place and therefore more stories to share and tell. As long as humans exists in this world of ours, there will always be more stories of tragedies, stories of happiness, etc. 

Curiosity things, people of phenomena, is an essential call, which upon us and other creatures Mother Nature. As long as the infant being born is interesting it is all about, so long will the desire to develop knowledge and experience.

You are right dear Brenda,

it´s much easier to click and get the standard responses, than to do research as we have learned it in books, papers, discussion with collegues.

For what serves a lot of information if someone is not able to understand it really. There is frequently much “noise” between what some author thinks or creates and what many people thinks that he/she thinks or creates really. So, it is necessary quality of information and capacity to understand this quality.

Yes Dear Antonio,

the student must understand, not just perceive some infos. And understanding is correlated with intense disputing, thinking and analysing of the data, models etc.

A short standard mouse click will not help.

Maybe don't know exactly how to put it, but the idea is that sometimes we need to get, read and process a lot of primary information and data to be ablte to transcend to the next level of understanding and reach our own revelation. Who said wisely : Quantitative accumulations lead to qualitative leaps...

Dear All: As Hanno said once “Sometimes is difficult to be understood.” In my last answer I was thinking mostly about (people producing) pseudo-science. In my opinion, that is the type of understanding and information that is not useful. See the following link where James Knaub said: “… and it seems authors are then reinventing the wheel, and making it square.” 

I was not thinking about students that are the best that our Universities have. I feel myself as an eternal student (continuous study is necessary for execute my profession).

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_increase_the_visibility_of_relevant_past_work_for_those_currently_writing_papers_and_journal_articles?_tpcectx=profile_answers

Dear all,

in schools and universities there are to kinds of fields to be distinguished. The subjects where you have to learn with highest priority a big amount of facts. The usual method is to learn them by heart. If you don´t use them all the time you will forget the biggest part by time. In Germany we call these subjects "Lernfächer". Typical examples are the medical discipline of anatomy, the periodical system at the start of chemistry or physics studies or the learning of a vocabulary in a foreign language.

The second kind of fields are those disciplines, where you first of all have to understand relationships between facts after having learned them.  Of course you have to apply your knowledge to special cases. In Germany we call theses disciplines "Verständnisfächer". If you once have understood the relations thoroughly they remain for the rest of your life.

I think this second type of learning is the better method to "turn the information famine".

Probably yes, since, as much as you eat or in general consume, the more you want to consume again and again. A 'metron' is always needed.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/642841-pan-metron-ariston-everything-in-moderation

"information famine" means --- gathering information of no use!

In normal cases, from the large collection of research papers gathered by a researcher,  he can find only a few papers which are useful to his research. It means that in this case, the researcher  gathers so many papers with many of them have no use in his studies.

WE LIVE in revolutionary times. Information moves around the world at the speed of light and is duplicated endlessly, available to anyone with a connection.

“For good and ill,” writes Charles Seife in Virtual Unreality, “digital information is now the most contagious thing on the planet.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229720-900-information-famine-at-the-centre-of-the-infosphere/