People frequently these days are relying on social media and the internet such as here for communication of important ideas, but then forgetting to disseminate it in other mediums.
Online is great for trends. You can push something out, it can go viral, and then you can get a broad audience....but a broad audience is not a well-informed audience, and they typically are not a deep audience.
If you want a deep audience, you need to have more than just online content. You need to start to publish physical copies too. Physical copies can be retained, lost and forgotten but then refound, discretely shared, copied, etc and redistributed back onto the web through unboxings, reviews, criticisms, etc.
Having a physical object also means it's a tangible thing. It has existence....you cannot shadow ban a book. So, don't discount the old mediums of paper and ink. Art too.
Though I don't disagree with your logic, I do not know many people at all that read anything from physical print publications anymore, including myself. Technology has infiltrated our lives in a way that most everyone prefers convenience over tradition. Our collective attention spans have been reduced to that of a horsefly. We want it fast, we want it easy, and we want it succinct.Though having physical copies of information makes sense, it would just collect dust on the shelf with the Encyclopedia Britannica collection and self-help books. If we ever go back to a world without the convenience of technology leading the path of communication, our problems will be much greater than trying to remember where the info notebook is and how to share its contents with a larger collective.
Yes, and I assure you. That dusty shelf copy will survive beyond the blog posts and YouTube links if the information was truly impactful.
You cannot follow hard facts when the jannies are paid to clean up faster than you can share it beyond a couple people who will then not necessarily be able to find it again, it may get blocked, or worse it could get altered.