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i spent a huge amount of time scrolling the internet (random curiosity directed consump of internet content) in the 2010s. in retrospect, i don't even regret a lot of it, since it played an important role in bringing me into internet culture. but at some point the value of scrolling declined substantially; it's hard to pinpoint when it changed. i wonder what happened.
Totally off topic -- scrolling seems like a measurable thing. Imagine if all your devices measured every scroll operation you do on your computer or smartphone, and provided statistics like "today, you have scrolled 240 meters of screen". If we had that data, the first obvious question would be whether you are scrolling more miles per day than you used to do years ago.
Another interesting thing to measure would be be the number of insights (or other valuable things). Imagine that anytime you see something valuable, you say "oh", and your smartphone makes a ... (read more)