Too Much – Knowledge is not what you know; but where to find it. But these days, you do not have to search as to where does that knowledge is to be found.
Two decades ago, I used to sit in the library, leafing over the books, in search of some desired information. This process used to take hours, sometimes days, but in the end I could not only get the desired information, in that process I used to learn of many other things. This used to be the extra reward. And this extra used to be life changing.
I can compare, though roughly, the experience of searching the libraries to train travel. Travelling by a train from point X to point Y is the basic objective. But in that travel, I used to see many towns and villages! This used to be the bonus or the extra reward. But yes, I used to spend hours, days travelling. A decade ago, or may be a little earlier, many search engines were launched like the Google. You can search in them for any information and will get some information in few seconds. I may get what I want or may not get the desired outcome. I do not even know whether the information given by Google or Artificial Intelligence is correct. You ask the same question in ten different ways … the AI will give you ten different answers! Not believing me? Check yourself.
Easy come, easy go. Other than the answer, I learn nothing. There is no bonus learning, no extra information or extra reward. I reach usually a dead end with AI or Google! Time definitely saved like the time saved by flying from point X to point Y. You have not seen any towns or villages in that travel. Nothing extra gained. It became a dead travel, saving some time but losing the charm of life! Life becomes a bore and non-rewarding!
Without being judgmental, I must say this is no way of learning. Further, the Google kind of knowledge is like water in the sea, unfit for drinking. The humans stopped using their brains, became a parasite on search engines like google.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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