CORRECT ANSWER When the internet was limited to scientists and engineers it bene

CORRECT ANSWER
When the internet was limited to scientists and engineers it benefitted all of us.
Like everything in the world: mass markets, like mass democracy seek the bottom of the stimulation pyramid.
Why? Because “Brains seek stimulation by novelty by the means comprehensible.”
So, put basal stimuli in children’s hands and that’s what you get.
Put mass communication in the hands of nitwits and they’ll gossip about ‘simple folks talk about people, less simple folks talk about events, and not simple folks talk about ideas and are bad at it, and very not simple folks falsify ideas and invent new ones, some of which aren’t bad.
It’s not complicated.

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