Clearly I have smarter millennial friends than you
Sure there’s some availability bias but that’s true of all media. Academic western libraries have their own biases.
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I think you’re demonstrating my point: if Wikipedia didn’t exist, maybe you’d actually read a book. And then you’d be much better informed. By analogy: it’s like how, when you take away a kid’s device, they go play outside — which is good for them, even if they whine about it.
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And aha, the kid reference nails *your* key blindspot here: you’re unwilling to give up a society based on information consumption paternalism. Adults outside formal education institutions choosing more freely what to read, and to what depth, is a net good.
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Hm, my use of it has definitely moved away from science/math over time (as I found a niche where I'm comfortable looking at more authoritative sources first). Anecdatum: a quick search in my browser history for this month says it's mostly econ, linguistics, medicine, and Marxism
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