@Dramamine @VirginCrusader On the upside
the internet means that you can not just have summarized media in a way that was never possible with mass-broadcast television

but that you can actually tailor the summary to the viewer

i've dreamed for a long time of having something like a 'goodreads book compare' or a 'khan academy network progress' for what concepts you already understand -- so that you can skip the bullshit for comparing in one-on-one communication what each of you know before you get to the meat of what needs to be communicated (bonus points if you can do it in O(logN) or something) - - this is actually possible even in audio format now that we AI to help us do this stuff but basically no one's done it.