The web already teaches to think beyond the limits of physical reality. Take learning for example: compared to regular books, the web lets you instantly link be

The web already teaches to think beyond the limits of physical reality. Take learning for example: compared to regular books, the web lets you instantly link between topics, pause and explore related resources, go back where you paused, rewind with newfound knowledge, explore multiple paths at once. New abilities to interact is meant to fundamentally transform data in the same way the web added links, not merely put lipstick on existing pigs. Instead, marketing execs (whose real goal is merely to sell more ads) want to recreate the boring experience of being stuck in an auditorium because this is what the aesthetic of "learning" looks like to them and they can't imagine learning differently. A key difference is choice: you opt-in to look at something, you choose to pause and explore a topic further, you're not passively being marketed at like people who leave the tv on all day in the background. It's so frustrating that there are so many exciting wonderful advances being done in all kinds of domains and they get overshadowed by the marketing gimmicks.