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Serendipity, aka "Accidental Discovery": Does the Web Help or Hurt?

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I am obsessed with serendipity. It's become an almost pathological fascination since 2009, when I was inspired by a happy confluence of what I was doing then, and something that bumped up against it. I'm curious about what serendipity is, how it can be predicted and the things that help facilitate it and hinder it. And, being a student of the social psychology of the web, I'm interested in how the digital space affects it.… more