Interconnectivity
This is more and observation about modern life than anything else. Primarily that we have become so interconnected with the world around us. When I was a kid and at school the total sum on knowledge available to me was what was in the local and school library and the city and local papers. Today kids have access to entire online libraries with millions of titles. Not only that they have ready access to information found in general web searches, some subjects having literally thousands of sources. But I don't think it has made us any smarter. In fact I think it has done away with the need to remember since the information is always at our fingertips. We have become lazy even with our spelling. The web and instant messaging has made us shorten words, use symbols and then we have spell and grammar checkers to make sure that we get it right. We don't even have to think in a logical order when writing any more because we can cut and paste parag...