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Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" predicted this situation exactly.

At the time I thought it seemed unreasonable -- would you really need a dedicated cult of techno-priests whose primary skill was sifting through search result pages to find the real information among a sea of weaponized, machine-generated nonsense? -- but it turns out he was precisely on the mark at describing the problem.

And, who knows, maybe he's got the solution right as well. Maybe library science skills -- like critical thinking but taken to another level -- is something we can teach to our kids or provide as a service.

(I was hoping Quora would go in this direction. It has not.)



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