A quote from Russell Kirk can relate to the internet: “Information is not knowledge; and knowledge is not wisdom.”
Massive amounts of information from the internet and elsewhere can be turned into knowledge which can then lead to wisdom. What is required is the ability to discriminate and integrate all that mass of information.
The information age tends to turn out people who know everything but know the value of nothing--- another Kirk quote.
David Foster Wallace once said that he took in 500,000 bits of info but could use only 25.
Massive amounts of information from the internet and elsewhere can be turned into knowledge which can then lead to wisdom. What is required is the ability to discriminate and integrate all that mass of information.
The information age tends to turn out people who know everything but know the value of nothing--- another Kirk quote.
David Foster Wallace once said that he took in 500,000 bits of info but could use only 25.
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