Are our Synapses firing faster?

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"...The speed of communications (a revolution, Rosa points out, that came on the heels of transport) rose by a factor of 10 million in the 20th century. Data transmission has soared by a factor of around 10 billion...,"says an article on how the meaning of "now" has changed in modern times due to the bombardment of faster and faster stimuli.

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