[LINK] Seeking

[Rick Welykochy]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> Seeking
> How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And 
> why that's dangerous.
> By Emily Yoffe
> Slate
> Posted Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, at 5:40 PM ET
> _http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/_
...
> Ever find yourself sitting down at the computer just for a second to 
> find out what other movie you saw that actress in, only to look up and 
> realize the search has led to an hour of Googling? 

Even simpler still. When I look up a word in the (hardcopy) dictionary,
therein begins the wild goose chase through the lexicon, looking up
words by association with the previous one found. It can go on for quite
a while. To the point of forgetting what I was looking for in the first
place.

Interesting article. There is definitely some brain thing happening
in connection to the reward of seeking for seeking's sake.


cheers
rickw


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