alt Hacker NewsWhen I was a kid, I had one video game and played it all the way through. When the system was emulated and access to every single game ever created became available, I lost interest.
When I was a kid, I had one video game and played it all the way through. When the system was emulated and access to every single game ever created became available, I lost interest.
Part of my self-administered IT education in my early 20s was to feed my film nerdery through exquisite data hoarding. Automation, NASs, media servers, all of it.
Curiously, I found that the better I got, the less movies I actually watched. It became more about collecting than engaging.
I think this is a corollary to your point: vastly increasing access and reducing our objects of desire to a standardized neatly storable form can easily divert us into hoarding behavior, to the detriment of actual engagement with what’s being hoarded.