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@M0YNG
Knowledge on the internet is near i finite. You could spend your whole life on the internet accessing scholarly peer reivewed papers, or you could spend it memorizing all the worda to every sponge bob episode.
The internet just gives you easy access to whatever knowledge you seek. The quality of that knowledge is entierly up to you, it isnt dictates by the internet.
@freemo @M0YNG Papers are generally expensive if you aren't at an academic institute and they are also not a great place to learn a new topic. I often find technical information on places like wikipedia either totally inaccessible or so simple its unusable.
Honestly I don't think I've seen anything that comes close to replacing a good textbook. The information is probably all there on the internet, but not nearly as accessible or curated.
I agree, textbooks are generally better. Though with that said there is no shortage of textbooks on piratebay either.
With that said I dont think if you made textbooks free you'd see any fewer flat earthers either as they dont appear to make any effort to learn even the basics, let alone rigorous knowledge like a text book.
@freemo @M0YNG Indeed, so I suppose the original post was valid. Even in academic environments I hear people say "books? I don't use books I use google" it's something that concerns me, so I suppose I jumped to make it about that.