Brad

Well you kind of answered your own question as to why people are generally stupid these days. If you just accept what google has ranked at the top as your answer, chances are you are no less educated on a subject than you were when you began. Assuming you have ever done research at a library you already knew that.

But ya, computer indexing and electronic copies of trusted periodicals really save time. I can't even begin to imagine how much time it would have taken to do real research on a subject before the internet. I've done the library thing, but only when the source wasn't available electronically...and anyone who has been to university in the last decade knows that most of everything is indexed online now.

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