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Are all the efforts at indexing more of the internet just helping people get quicker access to misleading or inacurrate information?
Someone wanting to know how a PC stores pictures and sound might not care to read a 30 page chapter of a book. They might protest that they only had a single question, why should they read so much.
Could information overload be causing people to want oversimplify? Without a foundation for knowledge, could people be following recipes that are as inscrutable as magic potions?
Is there a benefit to learning the fundamentals first? By starting with addition tables, and then learning multiplication, division, and slowly more advanced mathematics, the learner is not presented with techniques they have no possible way to understand. Compare this to giving a child a general purpose advanced computer to do math with? Or a desktop publishing program, when they haven't even learned to spell?
We decry doctors who treat a patient without knowing all the details of that patients medical history. We worry that they will miss a relevant detail, and prescribe a wrong treatment. Yet, when we look for an answer to a deep question, will the answer include enough foundation to know if it is really the correct answer to the question we should be asking?
We need better knowledge based tools to help us get to the foundational roots of knowledge, rather than more tools that just focus on the end leaves of the tree of knowledge.
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