Can you even remember the last time you opened a physical dictionary or encyclopedia?
You don't have to anymore, with the ability to type any term into Google and get results in less than a second--and no paper cuts.
So the facts are there for us... now there's the issue of CONTEXT. In The Internet of Us, author Michael Lynch points to evidence that shows we may know more, but we don't understand more.
In fact, we seem to understand less. He visits The Exchange to lay out the case.