With each generation that foregoes printed media (books, newspapers, magazines etc.) for getting everything from the Internet, link rot is slowly destroying the knowledge base of civilization leading to idiots as President and gullible people getting their health information from which ever social media conspiracy theorist acts the most outraged.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! - HT