Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?