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The information age has done something remarkable: it has accelerated the generation of ideasand concepts beyond anything our ancestors could have imagined. Whatever your taste, whateveryour question, there is a concept ready to meet it. We can find the thinkers who speak ourlanguage, the frameworks that confirm our instincts, the communities that share our angle ofvision. On its face this is an abundance — fertile, enlivening, endlessly generative.And yet abundance has a shadow. An information explosion that promises to expand us canquietly contract us instead. Because we can choose the ideas that suit us best, we tend to doexactly that, gravitating toward what is comfortable and familiar, settling into the warm cornersof our own assumptions. The very technology that invites...