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