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Why easy access to facts fragments understanding

I can look up any historical fact instantly but I have no sense of how events connect to each other anymore, just isolated pieces of information floating in my head.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The atomization of information retrieval disrupts the formation of coherent mental models and contextual comprehension.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Printing press and knowledge democratization?”

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