…new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it.

…new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it.

Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing on Endless Web Data

WSJ.com, 3/12/08

Turns out we as humans are physialogically hard-wired to want to learn and respond to other people. It is difficult to make a stronger argument for the Read-Write web in the classroom than that!