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The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to vastly overvalue what happens to us right now, as Union College psychologist Christopher Chabris explains. We crave the new even when we know that the new is more often trivial than essential.

Nicholas Carr

The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to vastly overvalue what happens to us right now, as Union College psychologist Christopher Chabris explains. We crave the new even when we know that the new is more often trivial than essential.

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