Don't forget that current generation monitors display only a fraction of the data / inch that traditional printed pages do.

As such, what at first blush appears to be an enormous amount of information may actually contain no more useful data than your run of the mill stock page or the box scores in a dead-tree newspaper.

Of course the flashing lights do make it a little different than a newspaper... much more likely to induce seizures. :)

Showed this to a friend who is a trader and his humorous comment: "They ought to have a metric - return per monitor."

I see a perpetual PITA for IT.

The nightmare of cables under his workstation, power requirements, networking setup ...

Noise.