infoglutEtymologyFrom info + glut. Coined by John Naisbitt in 1982.nouninformation overload“Most of us are not fortunate enough to be associated with large universities or government institutions, which are staffed with battalions of professionally trained reference librarians working in magnificient libraries equipped with terminals, printers, modems, and access to the huge (and costly) on-line databases that have sprung up in response to infoglut.”