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Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Y
by gds44 2y ago
Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Yet libraries still stand. And I still head there whenever I need some peace and quite. Something like that will happen with StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Quora,Reddit and even HN.
- niemandhier 2y agoThe difference ist that libraries are vaults of knowledge usually operated by governments to ensure access to the public. Of all the examples you named only Wikipedia has a mission that is comparable to a library. All the others will probably perish and exist as datasets you can buy, just like some social networks of yore.