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People presumably are smarter than cats, and as we become more familiar with the Web and its torrent of information, maybe we'll do a better job learning what is useful and what isn't.


An interesting article, but this last point is a bit moot. It's only valid if we are exposing ourselves to both useful and useless information in order to be able to sift the former out of the latter. This is unlikely, since most people don't really "surf" anymore (going from hotlink to hotlink just to see where it takes them). The modern webuser has a select set of pet interests and sites to which he keeps going back.