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Why the Internet Recency Bias Is Bad News for All Humanity

November 03, 2022

Internet recency bias is bad news! You’ve heard of recency bias before. You know, a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones; a memory bias (via Wikipedia). Now add the internet to the existing potential of recency bias and we have a problem. 


Did you know that by 2025, the amount of data generated each day is expected to reach 463 exabytes globally (source: SeedScientific)? That’s mind-boggling!


An internet recency bias does not sound like the best combo.


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