“This book is particularly thought-provoking”

In “Bottleneck”, Richard Epworth has exposed many earlier presumptions about the information rate that the human mind can absorb through the body’s primary sensory inputs. He does so using rigorous scientific analyses. He eloquently takes the reader through the concepts of information rates as applied to audio, visual and other sensory stimuli, and describes the fundamentals expressed in Shannon’s Theorem – the baseline for understanding all communications. Basing all measurements in bits per second, he comes to the surprising conclusion that the human mind demonstrates a very strict limitation in the amount of new information it can absorb at any instant. This limitation he calls the “Bottleneck”. “Bottleneck” is a very enjoyable and stimulating book that I would wholeheartedly recommend. Five Stars - 5 Aug. 2014