I was walking this morning, and it struck me: the Internet is amazing. It's taken our collective knowledge to a level that couldn't have been imagined two decades ago.
For somebody younger than me, maybe the impact of WWW isn't as apparent, but when I compare and contrast my pre-Internet existence with now, it's amazing.
I don't have to be in the dark about anything.
Lyrics from a song run through my head, I just have to Google those and get the full song, the artist and links to all the recordings.
A friend tells me she lived in Tuvalu during her Peace Corps years, and I can quote the GDP, the Governor-General and the major trading partners in mere seconds.
I want to find a book on no-name Tennessee boys who made it big, and I can pay for it and have it shipped to my house almost instantaneously.
We can theoretically prepare for the upcoming election by reading thousands of descriptions of the candidates.
Is there a tradeoff somewhere, though? Will we ultimately become a people unwilling to seek (if the search takes longer than the speed of DSL)?
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