Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry?
by mc32 on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:56PM
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With books you have to actually read. It’s an active thing. Vegging out on the couch or bed even, is passive. Often you don’t even have to think because it’s mostly action with lots of repetition and little mystery.
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You're moving the goalposts. Whether reading is better than watching is an interesting debate unrelated to the topic at hand.
I'd happily veggie out on a couch with a favorite book series and live in fantasyland for days (alas, real world interferes...).
I don’t think so. Of course we can read pulp. Evenso, I doubt people would read as much pulp as they’d watch all you can stream programming.
Given the option of gorging on books or gorging on Netflix over a long weekend dawn till dusk, I bet most people would choose Netflix. If you randomly divided the people into those two groups and made them read and the others watch, more readers would wash out than watchers.
Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry?
by Apocryphon on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:39PM
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Just wait until VR fulfills its hype.