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Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression by quotz on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:30PM (#23197705)
I would like to mention Paul Graham's essay Acceleration of Addictiveness http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression by hckr_news on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#23198165)
Slight tangent but somewhat related. The amount of damage mobile phones and the tech industry have done on the human mind has been extremely understated. These hits of dopamine aren’t free. There’s a massive cost. Loss of privacy aside, the next battle has to be addressing the addiction of these platforms/devices and what it means for humans going forward.
Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression by ridhwaan on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:32AM (#23200753)
This was the underlying implication of my post. Reading a book is in no way similar to the way we consume media/information today.