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Too much information is paralysing. Irish research centre Clarity investigates ways to tailor technology to a user's preferences The particular innovation is that the subscriber doesn't even have to explicitly say what they are interested in

WHEN BRUCE Springsteen sang "There's 57 channels and nothin' on," he had a point. That was in 1992, and things have gone rapidly downhill since. Springsteen's answer was to fire a pistol at the telly, but surely there's a more harmonious approach to getting the information you want and tuning out the rest.