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My account is that the Internet is cluttered. Attempts to organize the clutter create piles of knowledge, but those piles contain a variety of simple and comple

My account is that the Internet is cluttered. Attempts to organize the clutter create piles of knowledge, but those piles contain a variety of simple and complex information, vague and detailed, accurate and creative, and still the piles themselves are not organized. We've learned to sort through piles of information to identify what we want (or something close enough). I think it's exhausting. I'd like to see a curated internet directory that can direct users to quality information as a librarian would. I believe that would stoke curiosity more than the current typical experience.

ashark 9y ago
My experience is that it's easy to waste tons of time on the Internet trying to learn how to learn things the best possible way when if you'd just spent that time on the first mediocre book on a given topic at your local library you'd have been better off. I'm deeply skeptical of the overall value of the Internet even for those trying to use it for enrichment and not just entertainment/shopping. I'm sure some outliers manage super-powered learning with it, but I think for most it's more like a massive distraction of false work and wasted effort that occasionally yields bursts of high productivity, while being kind of crap on average compared with what could be done without it and without the distraction of an all-you-can-eat information buffet. Especially if you factor in the Skinner box nature of the modern Web and its ability (along with other hyper-available, giant-catalogue-at-your-fingertips entertainment, all also delivered over the 'net) to waste hours of time in seemingly the blink of an eye.