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I suppose people will have to connect in-person again. If this were to transpire, I think it would provide numerous benefits. Human health would improve. It

• asdff 1y ago
  That is fine, but the web is still useful outside that. Think of technical blogs were people carry out some project, hit some setback, and write about the process getting it resolved. Or their experience hiking some trails and reporting on the sort of country they find there. The amount of information and content you can share in a blog would be like making your friends sit through a 60 minute powerpoint presentation. No one does it. At most you get the 5 minute version of what happened then the conversation flows elsewhere. Even if you are in some hiking group, unless you happen to have the ear of someone highly interested in your experience on that trail who would sit through a pretty one sided conversation for so long. And on top of that the blog is not ephemeral like a conversation. Write it up as it was fresh in your head, and someone across the world might find it interesting 2 years after the fact. They might even return to it multiple times. It is almost like google scholar in that regard, a store of findings that might be useful for future doers, covering life's challenges and pursuits. The fact that we are losing this capability of basic experience and information sharing vs. expanding it to more people is quite sad for us I think.