An incredibly prescient parable for the modern information overload age, if so. Do you recall the title? I'd love to give it a read. Asimov was a master.

"Writing Time". it was the first thing I thought of too - the story definitely made an impression on me at the time!

here it is, not sure where you can find the text unless you traverse the high seas. I've read it in a story collection called after Azazel.

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Writing_Time