Joshua Foer - Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture s...

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Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Joshua Foer

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Unsere Kultur überschwemmt uns ständig mit neuen Informationen, und doch erfasst unser Gehirn so wenig davon. Ich kann ein halbes Dutzend Stunden damit verbringen, ein Buch zu lesen, und habe dann nur eine neblige Vorstellung davon, worum es ging.

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