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The chemistry of information addiction

Information addiction is appearing more frequently as a term to describe how our brain craves information. The chemistry of information addiction indicates why many people find the internet (particularly under the banner of real-time tools) so rewarding: we crave information and we want it now. The author states that we find “not-knowing” to be stressful. I’m curious how the stress of not-knowing relates to the stress of information abundance – i.e. “significant attainments lost in the mass of the inconsequential