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"Information coming in at an overwhelming rate kills pleasure. It turns pleasure into processing, which leads directly to the “machine zone” that Natasha Dow Schüll associates with video gambling. This is why efforts to accelerate consumption should always be regarded with suspicion — these do not help us achieve more; they revert us to efficiency-seeking drones. The remedy for the corrosive effects of convenience cannot be simply searching for something even more convenient."