Dr. David Drake: DesMoines Register: Anthropologists and sociologists must have been busy in these past 25 years, seeing how human culture and our society have changed so dramatically.
We live in a world now that bears little resemblance to the world where those of us over 40 grew up. This new world is one in which we are increasingly bombarded with information — news from TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and all sorts of ways that people can contact us, including fax, phone, text, email, Twitter and Facebook.
How do we manage all this information? How do we get respite from all the noise …