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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2809872, member: 15588&quot;]Maybe. That&#039;s about all anyone can say. I also think that the claimed changes the internet brought are often exaggerated and that the internet itself is changing in ways that will make it less likely to introduce people to new things or concepts.</p><p><br /></p><p>But first who is to say what is antiquated? Apparently, there is a huge upsurge of younger people playing board games and getting away from their digital devices. I also still see young people reading actual books when I drive through a local university. Many music stores say the banjo has made a strong comeback recently. As the world continuously speeds up, the old seems to become new time and time again with more rapidity. Maybe coins will also fall into this category?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some internet studies have shown that many people really only interact with tiny parts of the internet. It is huge but it&#039;s also becoming too big to be useful for most people outside of their immediate spheres of interest. It presents a person with so many choices and so many options that many things get lost and marginalized easily. Even Facebook is overwhelming and posts only reach so many people. Not only that, it is largely driven by algorithms that tend to show people more of what they are already interested in, so it has become more and more of an echo chamber over time. So, if you&#039;re not interested in coins to begin with, you may not be exposed to many coin-related items, or it becomes more and more difficult to come across coin related items without someone forwarding them on to you. Which puts us back in the same situation of exposure. The internet isn&#039;t really that different from physical reality, apart from speed and the potential of exposure, but increasingly that exposure often isn&#039;t realized without large marketing budgets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally don&#039;t see teenagers passing pictures of old coins around the internet <i>en masse</i>, but maybe some would (e.g., the mention of Instagram above)? I don&#039;t know. Plus, and this is of course a theory, in general the desire to own coins, the real passion many of us feel for them, seems to depend upon their actual tactility and immediate in-handedness. A picture of a coin has less impact than holding one in your hand, again in general. There&#039;s really no guarantee that the internet will expand the coin collecting hobby at all in a pocket change free world. But, as I said before, no one really knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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