{"id":176,"date":"2008-03-18T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-03-18T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:52:54","slug":"addicted-to-new-and-novel-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to new and novel information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a self confessed neophile, I now have a better understanding of why I read so widely &#8211; especially online.  The answer &#8211; which comes from an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB120527756506928579-3wNdJRXhkpLqY4EDBt4j3ly1foo_20090312.html?mod=rss_free\">article in the WSJ<\/a> &#8211; is not encouraging<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us &#8216;infovores.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFor most of human history, there was little chance of overdosing on information, because any one day in the Olduvai Gorge was a lot like any other. Today, though, we can find in the course of a few hours online more information than our ancient ancestors could in their whole lives.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the Betty Ford clinic\u00a0 lets it&#8217;s &#8220;clients&#8221; surf the web?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/radar-roundup-brains.html\">Nat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a self confessed neophile, I now have a better understanding of why I read so widely &#8211; especially online. The answer &#8211; which comes from an article in the WSJ &#8211; is not encouraging When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}