possibly noteworthy wrote:
Read books. I doubt you'll ever find yourself associating a YouTube video with a place and time in your life.

Well, if for no other reason than a book requires such a large investment of time while also failing to fully consume the senses that it becomes associated with the time and place in which it was read, regardless of how good it was. The most important events of this century are those for which everyone recalls exactly where they were when the news reached them because the emotional impact of the event was so extreme that the memories are burned brightly into everyone's cortext... some mechansim in the mind designed to learn how to avoid bad experiences is triggered by the worst national tragedies... The Kennedy Assasination, the Challenger Explosion, September 11th... It is inevitable with the poliferation of citizen journalism that some future historical event will reach you first as a short video on the Internet. You'll have just a few minutes to view it before the servers become overloaded. You'll tell your grandchildren where you were when you got the link.

RE: A Traveler's Library