An article with the details about something which may appear self-evident to those of us who daily wash our psyches in the ever-flowing InterNet information stream: that information is addictive -- we tend to access it far beyond any capacity for rational use, even to our detriment in terms of a wider range of activities.
As someone who regularly buys 1.347 books for every one that he reads, I can have considerable sympathy for this position -- the only salvation is if you so enjoy your non-data-gathering activities that their continued neglect impels you to lift your muzzle from the bit trough to occasionally gaze at the stars.
This is another of my "tip-of-the-iceberg" phenomena.
Posted by jho at July 8, 2003 01:35 PM