Comment Re:Of course it can... (Score 1) 282
More importantly, the net helps us access knowledge quickly, meaning we don't have to know tons of unrelated facts, all we have to know is where to find those facts. That used to require trips to the libraries. Now its the Net. The net teaches us to be very good at discerning bullshit from true facts, which is a valuable thing.
This raises the question: and exactly how does the internet teach us to be good at discerning bullshit from true facts? We used to have books written by reputable authors, to be critiqued by other reputable authors in reputable newspapers. Now we have loads of information by a myriad of authors, critiqued by a vast, anonymous mass of people, all to be found on sites which might not even be physically located in the country they say they're from.
If anything, the net makes our search for the 'right' 'answers' many times more difficult.