“It is something we seem hard-wired to do. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit (the brain’s pleasure-enhancing neurotransmitters), and we are junkies for those. You might call us ‘infovores.’”

—Irving Biederman, from Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data by Lee Gomes. (So that’s why!)
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