I don't think I'd ever give up the internet altogether, but I wonder if there is a place for more thoughtful interaction with the internet - e.g. like how RMS browses(has a daemon download a page and email it to him for offline viewing).<p>You can still access all the information that way, but the "click ->dopamine hit, click ->dopamine hit, etc" training like you might get scrolling through reddit or social media feeds is interrupted by the time delayed nature of your browsing.
> To keep reading this story, create a free account.<p>Unskippable this time too. Reader view doesn’t help. Turning off JS doesn’t help.<p>Medium has gotten worse and worse. At this point it is literally unusable.
When I saw (actually, misread) the title I was hoping it would be about Samuel R Delany's "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" which is a complete knock-out SF book and probably the best thing Delany ever did. Oh well.<p><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_o...</a>
It often feels as though almost everything on the internet post 2000 or so has been an enormous bait and switch. Build a good service people like, get a lot of people hooked on it, and then gradually fuck it up in an attempt to generate some kind of revenue.<p>I, personally, hate it. Its depressing to see a technology so full of promise (seem to, anyway) regress. Become less magical, less useful. Its no wonder young people are skeptical of capitalism - it seems to literally be eating the goose. Not even the goose that laid the golden egg - just the goose, in hopes there might be a golden egg inside.