Wikifaking: using just-in-time Wikipedia look-ups to appear more informed than you actually are in conversation.
Feels like there ought to be a programming analogy. Late binding?
See also: Planck knowledge vs chauffeur knowledge and chess-postman.
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I have literally intiated relationships with people by googling the answers to their twitter/FB queries, lmao
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This MIT guy is already on it
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Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled our questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.
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I came up with the term "googlectual" for someone who uses this strategy back in 2005. omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2005/11/attent
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My grandfather was a prof. He used to tell me "you don't have to know, you just have to know how to find out". For him that meant going to the library but it's more true now than ever
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Facebook support groups are for people too stupid to use google.
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Programming analogy has to be lazy evaluation.










