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How Can You Be Bored in the Age of the Internet? I’m old enough to have spent my school days and teenage years in a time when there were no smartphones and no internet. I was a knowledge seeker from the beginning. I used to collect factoids from newspapers and magazines and write them down in notebooks. I have notebooks filled with factoids that I collected over the years, along with hand-drawn diagrams and everything. I even started compiling my own dictionary once… until I stumbled upon a real dictionary and it blew my mind that something like that already existed. Now imagine: you have a mobile phone in your hand with the entire world’s knowledge at your fingertips. You want to know something? You don’t have to wait weeks or months, visit libraries, and rummage through books to find it. Back then, many people had questions that remained unanswered their whole lives because of lack of time or resources. People would have these miraculous moments when a question they’d carried for years suddenly got answered by chance — in some magazine, newspaper, or TV program. And even then, there was no way to fact-check or verify if it was true. But now, with the internet, you can find almost any answer in minutes and research it further. First came the internet… and now on top of that, there’s AI. So you don’t just get an answer — you can debate it, discuss it, and analyze it deeper. So why am I saying all this? Because I see people getting bored today, and I wonder — how on earth can you be bored in this era when you have a phone with internet in your hand? (By the way, I wouldn’t be bored even without a phone — that’s a whole other story.) But if you have internet on your phone and you still say you’re bored… what a pathetic life you must be living.