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Overvaluing new innovations and underestimating limitations or negative consequences.
Drives premature adoption of unproven technologies, creates tech bubbles, and leads to neglect of existing solutions.
This bias explains why tech bubbles form and why people adopt new technologies before understanding their full implications.
"Congratulations! Your brain just demonstrated the same reasoning that kept us in trees for millions of years."