Well, that's what Seth Lloyd thinks. I love this <I>Technology Review</I> interview because the writer obviously doesn't buy the theory, but he gives Lloyd a fair shake in laying it out.
I'm not surprised at studies' conclusion that a committed relationship and a social network are more crucial to happiness than wealth. No, I'm gobsmacked that there's a field called "happiness research."
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human eye transmits visual data at more or less the rate of an Ethernet connection.