Information overload is a common problem, and it is an old problem. It is not a problem of the internet age, and it is not specific to scholarly literature, but the growth of preprints in the last five years presents us with a proximal example of the challenge.
![Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain, reproduced from Xie B, Shen Z, and Wang K 2021 [8]](https://asapbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-10.03.25-2-695x255.png)