I remember very well how once again, when I was getting ready to go on vacation, I stuffed a bunch of books into my suitcase. They were a priority over clothes and cosmetics. If not all the books fit, then some of the dresses or creams had to be laid out. Not taking a book meant depriving yourself of the pleasure of learning something new. Some of them were on psychology, marketing, sales techniques, and the other part were works of Russian classics mixed with Dontsova, Murakami and Coelho. There were already telephones then, but the most ordinary ones - for just calling and writing SMS. From spending time on the beach, the next book I ate periodically became wet and suffered from greasy spots of sunscreen. If we were very good together - I took her back to my country, if one reading seemed enough - she stood on the shelf of the hotel mini-library and waited for a new Russian-speaking reader. When I closed the book, I was immersed in my thoughts, conducting another internal dialogue , looked at the horizon and tanned people, meditated, enjoyed the sun, communicated, took photographs. I photographed nature, the ocean, animals, people with a DSLR camera that was familiar to my hand and simply took photographs. They were without funny captions, “ears” and a hundred different filters that improve cheekbones, enlarge eyes and mattify the skin. I dreamed many times that one day I would have in my hand one book in which there would be hundreds of other books, dictionaries and simultaneous translators, and then... I won’t need to carry kilograms of paper with me, and schoolchildren and students will walk lightly and write down all the information in one convenient information book. And now the dream has come true - this book is in my hands. It contains my whole life since 2013 in notes and photographs, downloaded audio and video books and dictionaries. It constantly updates news about everything in the world - from the exchange rate to the contents of the plate of an unfamiliar person who follows me on a social network. Reading has become more difficult, despite the fact that the original goal was easy access to knowledge and literature. There was a period when it seemed to me that I was stalling - I could not absorb more information. I don’t go through all the trainings that interest me, and if I do go through something, I understand that it’s not enough and I need more and more. At breakfast, my hand automatically reaches for the phone - after all, I might miss something, I might not find out in time. And just drinking, eating and doing nothing has become somehow unusual for a long time. I find myself in a hurry to take a leisurely walk through the forest. After all, in an hour you need to be in another place, otherwise you can be late everywhere. The analogy came by itself. A paper book, chosen among thousands of others and bought in a store, is like dinner in a good restaurant. You choose a place, a table, look at the menu and order. A few minutes of anticipation and here is the dish in front of you. You look at it, then you taste it, and finally, slowly eat it. A pleasant aftertaste and that period of time while the bill has not yet been paid. Maybe dessert? I think, yes. One easy dessert with an equally great presentation. Sorry, it won’t fit anymore. A smartphone is fast food. Catchy headlines instead of glutamate, easily digestible texts, or better yet, a minimum of text - a maximum of pictures, instead of fast carbohydrates. I felt satiety and heaviness at the same time, but my needs were completely, quickly, and quickly fulfilled. You no longer need to invent and imagine something on your own. You take a hackneyed quote from one of the greats and an interesting photo from the Internet with two silhouettes of people or the ocean (everyone loves the ocean so much) - you post it on your page and voilà... you are extremely smart. So you expressed yourself!!! Such information dependence, at first glance, seems to be invisible, and this is very dangerous. A regular on the Internet, consuming such a digestible information flow, over time loses the ability for in-depth analytical thinking, becomes impulsive, and loses the ability to perform intellectual work. And if an adult is still somehow able to perk up, ...