I think a generation may soon overdose on 'recency'. You can sprinkle it into all sorts of informational interfaces to create an extra (but often false) sense

I think a generation may soon overdose on 'recency'. You can sprinkle it into all sorts of informational interfaces to create an extra (but often false) sense of excitement. Social feeds and decaying-rank news sites (like HN) offer recency bingeing, but it's often just 'the new' crowding out 'the best'. This thread over at Edward Tufte's site solicits ideas for mitigating the recency bias of internet forums... but it seems an open (and perhaps eternal) problem: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000fT http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...