![]() Is War Inevitable? Yes and Perhaps Not - Raju Peddada, Swans and John Horgan, New Scientist.How Doing Nothing Nationalizes Health Care - D.How Will America End? 4 Theories - Josh Levin, Slate.Is There a National Literature Anymore? - Atlantic. ![]() Rather, when it comes to the Internet, the former encourages the latter: “We are bound to tap into it for general knowledge, and the young will do itĭon’t get him wrong: “There will always be dimwits, and feats of stupidity will always make news.” Get down from the tree, Jesus. Your brain to Google - or learning stuff cold. “the frame of cultural reference never stops moving.” So education today needn’t be an either-or choice between learning to gather facts in an instant - in effect outsourcing And anyway, a society’s pool of shared knowledge is ever-changing Centuries ago, a similar despair about the supposed decline of general knowledge attended the advent of printing. Shows - like the contestant who thought Johnny Weissmuller played Jesus swingingīut wait a second, Cathcart says. Look no further than the dolts of TV quiz ![]() Seems as if the fingertip ease of Internet search, satellite road navigation and the like is undermining people’s knowledge of basic facts of history and geography. Internet | Writing in Intelligent Life, Brian Cathcart, who teaches at Kingston University in London, says it sure Hollywood Pictures/1994 When it came to general knowledge, he was no prize either: Ralph Fiennes as the fraudster Charles Van Doren in “Quiz Show.” ![]()
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