According to this New York Times article, two Hardvard faculty members have come up with a new form of ADD classification for people with information addictions. The new label is pseudo-attention deficit disorder. According to these guys the constant feeds of information we seek cause a "dopamine squirt" in human brains, a rush similar to that given by narcotics.

I would have posted this sooner but I was busy concurrently reading 3 whitepapers and slashdot :) ..... seriously I was.... :(

Newly added tribe.noizex member, Operations, pointed out this article while chilling at his place today. Have fun working out of Montreal this week Op, keep us posted of your shenanigans through the blog :)

Here's some clips from the article:

Some people who are persistently wired say it is not uncommon for them to be sitting in a meeting and using a hand-held device to exchange instant messages surreptitiously — with someone in the same meeting. Others may be sitting at a desk and engaging in conversation on two phones, one at each ear. At social events, or in the grandstand at their children's soccer games, they read news feeds on mobile devices instead of chatting with actual human beings.... "It's like a dopamine squirt to be connected," said Dr. Ratey, who compares the sensations created by constantly being wired to those of narcotics — a hit of pleasure, stimulation and escape. "It takes the same pathway as our drugs of abuse and pleasure."

And now for a fitting quote from penny-arcade:I have cultivated a nearly insatiable capacity to consume information, and like some updated ruminant I'm constantly devouring, digesting, and discarding concentrated concepts... I'm used to a certain input threshold, and to facilitate this I have replaced my arguably useless belly-button with standard RJ-45 interface capable of 10/100Mbit Ethernet.