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by aresant 5193 days ago
My favorite explanation of this phenomenon, beyond the visual demonstration, is that lag time reminds the human mind that it is interfacing with a machine.

Because that feels unnatural, it creates fatigue and builds separation between the user and his work.

UI guru Jakob Nielsen has an excellent description of this here:

http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html