[chii]

but books has been available for a long time - wouldn't this have made a difference?

[coffeeblack]

Books are more abstract. The internet has video and sound and casual conversations and memes and the daily trivialities of the life of millions of ordinary people.

If books and newspapers made a as difference when they were new, I don’t know. But now I want to know.

[junon]

Indexing, barrier to entry, higher degree of perspectives and levels of explanation/understanding, different mediums, etc.