In a world of iAppliances, it is easy to get overwhelmed.
It's also a good way to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of Google hits or to create an ancestral identity crisis by marrying Grandma off to a man she never so much as met.
"Groups now," says Paul Morley, "have a sense of something happening in the 50s, in the 60s, in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and they tend to get overwhelmed".
With the sheer amount of buttons around, it's hard not to get overwhelmed.
I do think, though, that we don't want to get overwhelmed by the obvious negative things that have happened.
With all that the Art Basel Miami Beach fair has to offer, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of art on display.
So if I want to leave an insightful comment on Digg, my inbox is now likely to get overwhelmed by the random garbage comments left in response.
Today, the speed of change is coming so quickly, and the requirements are so daunting, that it's easy to get overwhelmed.
After all, there's a reason why Apple only sells a handful of laptop models — it's easy to get overwhelmed when you're choosing between a dozen laptops that differentiate themselves with features you're only vaguely familiar with.
In fact, some speculated that HBO purposely allows its streaming platform to get overwhelmed to stop subscribers from sharing their login information with non-paying users, which HBO CEO Richard Plepler has denied.
It's easy to get overwhelmed.
