At the same time, that knowledge is likelier to be patchy - learning from books, while limited by the books you have to hand, is better at ensuring that the things you know, you know thoroughly.
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Really? I've experienced a lot of the reverse. Because my peers CAN look up so much at a moment's notice, they feel less urgency to learn.
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I specified personality/intelligence peers across generations. Of course a nerdy introvert GenX teen would have known more in 1988 than an incurious jock millennial teen in 2008.
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Similarly, I think we can expect a greater diversity of interests from younger generations when they grow up. Twitter and Reddit make it easy to go arbitrarily deep into any interest without IRL support groups. Related thread:https://twitter.com/backus/status/983109400284966913 …
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People think they know more because of internet but they don't https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/c/259/files/2015/03/pdf-16ueczx.pdf …
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Da Vinci had to spend a lot of time getting information we can get instantaneously:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/984626355261259776?s=19 …
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You had me at Jevon’s paradox. Also my anecdata agree - at any given level of nerdiness, this generation is much more thoughtful and better informed than mine was.
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Wikipedia people have concept in most things but little knowledge on the same. Intellectual have expertise knowledge on specific narrow area. Unfortunately the Wikipedia can offer little if any knowledge on anything.
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One thing this overlooks is that it is trivial to search for deeper knowledge if the curiosity is left unsatisfied (which may not happen for the majority of queries, but might coincide or exceed the number of narrow areas).
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Personal anecdote: I had the luck of starting to be able to read when my dad started not being able to answer a majority of my Qs. The instantantaneousness might also be a huge factor. Today if I wonder about something (which is often) I almost can't immediately look it up.
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In case that wasn't clear: I did look most of those things up on Wikipedia when I was young (6y) (although Google was the real hub for both finding out what I'm looking for and diving much deeper). A phenomenon that might be new is that I've prob forgotten far more than I know.
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