Whatâ(TM)s interesting is that there was a report in Japan recently on tv about young people preferring to see movies after hearing spoilers. Apparently, Japanese youth donâ(TM)t like the excitement and thrills of plot twists and prefer to enjoy the fun of the storytelling without the pressure of having to wait for the unknown. You can chalk that up to the TikTok generation if you want, but its very probable that people are watching these summaries before watching the film proper. Studios will always claim lost sales and revenue, but I would be interested in knowing if these summary videos may have actually increased revenues.

I like how this is marked Insightful instead of Funny (as of this posting)

I saw this on the news when the image of two big 3.5 floppies popped up on the screen. I thought it was another nostalgia trip (there seem to be a lot of those in Japan), since it was the end of the year, until I started paying attention to what they were talking about.

I've been wishing and waiting for this touch screen fad to come to and end and hopefully this is the beginning. I'm in the market for a new car and everywhere we go EVERYTHING is touch controls. How can that not be a safety hazard? My car is over 10 years old and the only touch panel is the navigation screen. I've driven cars with touch panel climate controls and I find them infuriating. It takes too long to search for what you need when driving and without sensory feedback you have to look every time. As a kid I wanted to live in a Star Trek universe with touch screens and controls, but now having experienced it to a certain degree, I'm ready to go back to old fashioned analog controls. At least then you can feel when you've changed something instead of wondering whether your touch responded or not.

I remember trying to come to grips with the timeline story (everything created in 6 days vs the billions of years science gives us) as a child sitting in sunday school, and now when I think of it, I'm reminded of a joke I heard a long time ago:

[Average] Joe is having a conversation with God and asks, "What's a million years like to you?"

God answers, "A million years is like a minute."

Then Joe asks, "What's a million dollars to you?"

God says, "A million dollars is like a penny."

Joe thinks for a moment, then asks, "God, can I have a penny?"

God replies, "In a minute."

Birth. It makes everything else a lot easier to get once you've been born.

"Wikipedia is becoming the world's foremost gateway to knowladge." (emphasis mine)

I think this quote adequately sums up your point quite succinctly.