“This is where you go when you just can’t stop. It’s a rhythm. It’s a response to a fine-tuned feedback loop. It’s a powerful space-time distortion. You hit a button. Something happens. You hit it again. Something similar, but not exactly the same happens. Maybe you win, maybe you don’t. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. It’s the pleasure of the repeat, the security of the loop.” abstract from ‘The machine zone: what an anthropologist’s examination of Vegas slot machines reveals about the hours we spend on social networks’ https://goo.gl/yTrCKs
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Emiliano (Italian Masters Swimming athlete) powers on in freestyle action during an indoor training session with Flaminio S.C. Nuoto Master. Rome, December 2016 (Courtesy Flaminio S.C. Nuoto Master)