It was impressed upon me at a fairly young age that the true measure of intelligence is not what you know or how much you know, but knowing how to find out what you don't know.
A skill that will now become as rare, given the advent of search engines, as mental long division did, given the advent of hand calculators.
A skill that will now become as rare, given the advent of search engines, as mental long division did, given the advent of hand calculators.
Ah, but there is the art of using search engines. Even Google has its lesser-known abilities (e.g., intitle:, filetype:, and inurl: searches). And there are tons of specialized search engines that go the extra mile or six in their particular areas.
I'm okay with these. But I stand in awe of some of my friends and acquaintances. (Oh, those librarians!)
Special is a relative term, and the thing is that what makes one person feel special, is a skill another takes for granted.
I'm another one of those folks that, if I don't know something, I either know where to find it or who to ask. And I have found that, even with the advent of the 'Net, people still ask me things.
My friend, sue_librarian, is inundated daily with requests for information.
I think that, rather than the specialness fading, it is mutating. There are still may people for whom any but the most rudimentary computer skills seem to be beyond their reach. And to them, people like us will always be special.
It's not so much that we are no longer special, but that our friends are catching up to us, and becoming special in that regard, too.
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A skill that will now become as rare, given the advent of search engines, as mental long division did, given the advent of hand calculators.
Alas.
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Ah, but there is the art of using search engines. Even Google has its lesser-known abilities (e.g., intitle:, filetype:, and inurl: searches). And there are tons of specialized search engines that go the extra mile or six in their particular areas.
I'm okay with these. But I stand in awe of some of my friends and acquaintances. (Oh, those librarians!)
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I'm another one of those folks that, if I don't know something, I either know where to find it or who to ask. And I have found that, even with the advent of the 'Net, people still ask me things.
My friend,
I think that, rather than the specialness fading, it is mutating. There are still may people for whom any but the most rudimentary computer skills seem to be beyond their reach. And to them, people like us will always be special.
It's not so much that we are no longer special, but that our friends are catching up to us, and becoming special in that regard, too.