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Why the Internet Recency Bias Is Bad News for All Humanity
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.
Just because someone calls you right now, doesn’t mean you should answer the phone — or if you do answer the phone, that doesn’t mean you should stop reading this