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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2553412, member: 1892"]I am of the belief that the enormous variety of distractions which modern technology presents will be balanced out by the ease with which the Internet is able to facilitate numismatic progress, the process of "becoming good at it" which used to take years compressed into months or weeks. Numismatics will never be an "instant gratification" endeavor, but those aren't the types we seek anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>People will always want to express their individuality. The easy availability of information on the Internet leads to exposures to numismatics previously impossible - one writeup of a large transaction in "mainstream" media leads to a thousand hits on Google - and even though the ranks <b>may</b> thin out somewhat I rather doubt it because of the new participants worldwide who would never have given it a thought but for a random exposure not imaginable twenty years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2553412, member: 1892"]I am of the belief that the enormous variety of distractions which modern technology presents will be balanced out by the ease with which the Internet is able to facilitate numismatic progress, the process of "becoming good at it" which used to take years compressed into months or weeks. Numismatics will never be an "instant gratification" endeavor, but those aren't the types we seek anyway. :) People will always want to express their individuality. The easy availability of information on the Internet leads to exposures to numismatics previously impossible - one writeup of a large transaction in "mainstream" media leads to a thousand hits on Google - and even though the ranks [B]may[/B] thin out somewhat I rather doubt it because of the new participants worldwide who would never have given it a thought but for a random exposure not imaginable twenty years ago.[/QUOTE]
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