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Re:Human attention has become a commodity by bombcar on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:52PM (#31734546)
I think part of the difference is if you're on a quest for particular knowledge (how to repair your car, how to rebuild a M35A2 winch) vs just browsing aimlessly.

In the first, the internet wins hands down most of the time (there are specialized areas where nothing has been digitized); but the second it's not clear that browsing the library is worse than doomscrolling, even if you're doomstrolling HN or something relatively "high quality".

Re:Human attention has become a commodity by aaronwalker on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:23AM (#31735047)
To add on to the second point, when browsing the internet, you can skim dozens of articles on a certain subject like EU politics need without getting a clear picture of it, whereas all it takes is one we’ll crafted analytical book to get that overview.