As a pre-1985 person I think the worst part of the Internet is the know-it-all culture it created.
Especially with smartphones with Internet people seem to consider themselves experts in everything. If the topic isn't on the Internet or if the user can't find it then it must not exist or you get a terse request "Source!".
The worst part is I get drawn into the culture we all do or most of us anyway. I used to be good at trivia, I could often quote obscure scientific discoveries and was aware of world events as a teenager. Now all that has become a mindless app aka web browser no need to know just click.
Although the early Internet the early 1990s was a great time normal regular people from around the world conversing in large groups in real time for the first time ever.
I think this paradigm shift is extremely important. All that brain space that was allocated to trivia or knowledge is now going to be allocated to meta trivia/knowledge. Tidbits about how to discover more information/knowledge. This is fantastically powerful.
Especially with smartphones with Internet people seem to consider themselves experts in everything. If the topic isn't on the Internet or if the user can't find it then it must not exist or you get a terse request "Source!".
The worst part is I get drawn into the culture we all do or most of us anyway. I used to be good at trivia, I could often quote obscure scientific discoveries and was aware of world events as a teenager. Now all that has become a mindless app aka web browser no need to know just click.
Although the early Internet the early 1990s was a great time normal regular people from around the world conversing in large groups in real time for the first time ever.