The digitizing of human history will eventually (or already has) lead to is constant....

Google says this is an unfounded right wing conspiracy theory so it must be true

I would gladly go back to a world before the internet. I would be reading a book learning something instead of wasting time on this board.

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I would gladly go back to a world before the internet. I would be reading a book learning something instead of wasting time on this board.

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The thought of having to dig through a library card catalog to find a book then go running around the library trying to find it makes me want to yack

I'm halfway through the book right now. It's crazy that some of the things we are seeing were predicted in the 50s

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When all our knowledge was in books and analog sources it would have been near impossible to change it all.

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I would gladly go back to a world before the internet. I would be reading a book learning something instead of wasting time on this board.

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Fact check: true

I’ve been slowly gathering books, puzzles, games, DVDs, records, etc. in an effort to get back to an internet-independent state when it comes to non-outdoor activities. At least with these activities you don’t get zoned out as easily, and they don’t have built-in features that are designed to suck your time away and keep your attention as long as possible.

Maybe one day I’ll ditch TD and Twitter and enjoy these things

ETA: the internet is awesome: my gripe is specifically with social media and entertainment companies competing for our attention and time and money (ads)

I think my favorite part of the internet is the ability to learn. I have learned so much from podcasts and informative websites, it’s ridiculous. The ability to Google just about anything is incredible. That said, our dependence on the internet can hinder our ability to retain information we learn, similar to how the calculator enabled us to calculate more complex formulas, but our dependence on the calculator hindered our ability to calculate in our heads.

Email, iMessage, and FaceTime are pretty great too.

Yeah but who cares... we can solicit a thot half a world away to share a picture of her butthole with you in seconds.

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read 1984 this summer and to be honest it scared the crap out of me.

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wow man this is deep

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So now we have basically the worlds knowledge accessible by phone but how do we know how much of it has already been altered?

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Because we now have a world full of fact checkers waiting to point out any minor error. Use common sense. If you believe everything you read on the internet, you probably should step away.

I also think a huge danger to digitizing everything is, what if the data is wiped out by catastophe? We would be plunged into the dark ages with quickness.