title: You can't drink and whistle at the same time.
abstract: The United States and many other high-technology societies are said to be entering the "information age." But a more appropriate diagnosis might be that we are suffering from a cultural psychosis known as "information anxiety." Nowhere are the symptoms of this malady more visible than in medicine. Treatment for this condition is the use of information systems to lift us above the cacophony of data into the atmosphere of knowledge and the stratosphere of wisdom. But this use must itself be knowledgeable and wise. Otherwise, the treatment will simply exacerbate the symptoms rather than cure the patient.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Hendee
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D007256:Information Systems; D011643:Publishing