The Misinformation of the Sages

I still remember the day I discovered Google could count. I was in the Math lab at BYU and realized I had left my calculator at home. So instead of scrounging around for a piece of scrap paper to figure out what 45 * 6 was, I happily entered the expression in that brilliantly white text box and left Google to do the thinking. Google has become our surrogate brain, simplifying an entire research project into a couple of cleverly-worded search phrases and deciding where we are headed to dinner Friday nights. No doubt Google and the Internet have placed a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips, but I am afraid that our ability to reason and to wonder are at an increasing risk of going bankrupt.