People who grew up with Wikipedia seem far better informed than their intellectual/personality peers from older gens at same age. Jevons paradox. They know more *because* they can look up anything. No curiosity left unsatisfied. I’d estimate a 10y advantage in factual knowledge
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Wikipedia strongly encourages intellectual satisficing.
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You’re judging random curiosities by academic research standards. Basically, in 1988, a random nerd who wondered about a question would conclude “too much trouble to figure out” and move on without ever learning *any* answer. In 2018, they’d look up Wikipedia at least
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Sure there’s some availability bias but that’s true of all media. Academic western libraries have their own biases.