I’m 24.

I’m used to be really connected to the internet for a little while in high school. I love computers/electronics and I’m gonna go to trade school for it soon.

But I noticed how much more useful a book can be when I was living on the streets and had severely limited computer access. Books were divine. For real. Incredibly. I read constantly and used the computer to write occasionally or search for jobs and stuff.

I’m 24.

I’m used to be really connected to the internet for a little while in high school. I love computers/electronics and I’m gonna go to trade school for it soon.

But I noticed how much more useful a book can be when I was living on the streets and had severely limited computer access. Books were divine. For real. Incredibly. I read constantly and used the computer to write occasionally or search for jobs and stuff.

I’m not too articulate at the moment, temporary health reasons, but let me continue…

Probably why I became heavily involved with the internet is the speed at which you can find information. I wouldn’t say it’s the gratification of just the speed alone, but, if you’re curious about Zen Buddhism, you can go to Wikipedia and get a good sense of the tenets/history, and also find real-life-hyperlinks to print books. I’ve been lead to read more books because of that quick-curiosity-sate and through community recommendation than I did when growing up in school, or among family and friends, local libraries, etc.

Your hypothetical mansion-friends situation sounds really nice, and could potentially replace the internet for me, but I’m also an introvert (80% of the time) and like having an Off button. I don’t think the aesthetic of electronics has anything to do with it. I prefer reading things on paper.

I’d say I turn on the computer every day for a few reasons: to be entertained. To talk to friends. To study. To make art.

The knowledge is being amplified, yes, but the discussion and study of said knowledge is what is incredibly alive. That’s hard to find in a library. The discussion and redefinition of knowledge is what attracts me the most. Constant challenge.

That’s all I’ve got right now, sorry I couldn’t be more thorough or well-put.

I’m not too articulate at the moment, temporary health reasons, but let me continue…

Probably why I became heavily involved with the internet is the speed at which you can find information. I wouldn’t say it’s the gratification of just the speed alone, but, if you’re curious about Zen Buddhism, you can go to Wikipedia and get a good sense of the tenets/history, and also find real-life-hyperlinks to print books. I’ve been lead to read more books because of that quick-curiosity-sate and through community recommendation than I did when growing up in school, or among family and friends, local libraries, etc.

Your hypothetical mansion-friends situation sounds really nice, and could potentially replace the internet for me, but I’m also an introvert (80% of the time) and like having an Off button. I don’t think the aesthetic of electronics has anything to do with it. I prefer reading things on paper.

I’d say I turn on the computer every day for a few reasons: to be entertained. To talk to friends. To study. To make art.

The knowledge is being amplified, yes, but the discussion and study of said knowledge is what is incredibly alive. That’s hard to find in a library. The discussion and redefinition of knowledge is what attracts me the most. Constant challenge.

That’s all I’ve got right now, sorry I couldn’t be more thorough or well-put.

Then my family finally bought a computer and it was on. Though still books were my central and the internet used as a quick-casual fact checker or source for small bits of information which would take a week long search to find, if even possible, as the book might not be in stock or orderable.

So your type of creature fascinates me and makes me want to fully understand you. All the available stuff the internet offers books (and their holders, libraries, bookstores, random people who have books) offers too, as the internet is an offshoot of people, which is why it has grown to include media once regulated to the pages of an assassinated tree. Mad Libs and Madd magazine had a lot of fart jokes, but also some pretty good political/social information, too. But obviously the internet attracted you to it more strongly than other media.

You mention ADHD, so it is the gratification and speed which causes all your good-feel fuzzy feelings? If you had the largest and most complete library in the world, living in a mansion, with your closest friends under one roof, would the internet still entice you more than books? Is it the digital/electrical pulses? Could it be some people are attracted to these pulses electronics give off verses books?

You mention amplification (of the conversation of knowledge) — but you chose (or it seems that you chose) to become more attached to the amplification rather than what it is amplifying… could I be wrong and think that there was a point where the internet’s knowledge sprouted from books first, and the non-book-based information existed in minuscule, but now that has flipped, or at least, evened out? So am I wrong to say that that amplification is book-based? The knowledge is what is being amplified, right?

But why is it amplified? (Is this then sync’d back up to the ADHD connection of quickness?)…. I guess it can almost be being down to those who sip colas and those who gulp it down… I dunno…

I’m not jumping on your face here. I’m really just trying to figure everything out… hope you don’t think I’m attacking you or anything man.

Then my family finally bought a computer and it was on. Though still books were my central and the internet used as a quick-casual fact checker or source for small bits of information which would take a week long search to find, if even possible, as the book might not be in stock or orderable.

So your type of creature fascinates me and makes me want to fully understand you. All the available stuff the internet offers books (and their holders, libraries, bookstores, random people who have books) offers too, as the internet is an offshoot of people, which is why it has grown to include media once regulated to the pages of an assassinated tree. Mad Libs and Madd magazine had a lot of fart jokes, but also some pretty good political/social information, too. But obviously the internet attracted you to it more strongly than other media.

You mention ADHD, so it is the gratification and speed which causes all your good-feel fuzzy feelings? If you had the largest and most complete library in the world, living in a mansion, with your closest friends under one roof, would the internet still entice you more than books? Is it the digital/electrical pulses? Could it be some people are attracted to these pulses electronics give off verses books?

You mention amplification (of the conversation of knowledge) — but you chose (or it seems that you chose) to become more attached to the amplification rather than what it is amplifying… could I be wrong and think that there was a point where the internet’s knowledge sprouted from books first, and the non-book-based information existed in minuscule, but now that has flipped, or at least, evened out? So am I wrong to say that that amplification is book-based? The knowledge is what is being amplified, right?

But why is it amplified? (Is this then sync’d back up to the ADHD connection of quickness?)…. I guess it can almost be being down to those who sip colas and those who gulp it down… I dunno…

I’m not jumping on your face here. I’m really just trying to figure everything out… hope you don’t think I’m attacking you or anything man.