On White Noise

White Noise:

Actually after writing all of the above, I stumbled across the aforementioned article and to remain true to type I will contradict everything to avoid accusation of falling into line. Are we underselling the human element? The evolution of learning and information transition has been great so why is this new advent of skimming terrifically huge amounts of information for the things that we need. Does this not increase the diversity of the masses as individuals interface with the information that interests them?

Fair enough that corruption of systems like Google can have the impact of referring people to the same source material, but this is well combatted by the Web2.0 and filtering through a trusted network of friends. Whilst we may change what we consider to be high intelligence I doubt that we are really seeing a decay in the knowledge of the populace? Is this not a co-emergence resulting in more specialists in more fields? Thus the only way to be a generalist is to flit from blog to link to wiki...