You’re Reading This Because You’re Addicted to Information

Information addiction was nourished into existence by the internet.

I disagree in part. It was commoditised, ubiquitous in nature, and always-on but before we had internet, we had encylopedias, and the like. I grew up with "the whole earth catalog" in one toilet, and a stash of "the wizard of id" in the other.

bite sized information and cartoons were a constant in my life since before time. the sixties were amazing: we had catalogs.

(we also had as toilet fodder both a sears current catalog, and a reprint of a turn of the century sears catalog that Dover books put out)

Eh, I wouldn't really call it information addiction. I could easily stop surfing the web at any time. I do so mainly because I'm bored. I'm sitting here alone on a Wednesday night, I don't think it's such a bad thing that I'm just reading some interesting content.