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Serendipity, Lost in the Digital Deluge

By DAMON DARLIN
Published: August 1, 2009

We've gained so much in the digital age. We get more entertainment choices, and finding what we’re looking for is certainly fast. Best of all, much of it is free.

But we’ve lost something as well: the fortunate discovery of something we never knew we wanted to find. In other words, the digital age is stamping out serendipity.

When we walk into other...