Will it mean a devaluing of all knowledge or just the cheap knowledge? The copy and paste rewrites. The tabloid. The Meme. Or will we value the intentional more than today. Perhaps in an annoying smug mode. As an marketable A1 demographic, in search of authenticity. > I answer her, as best I may > That in a world such as today’s > Where each person can display > A bounty of data > On the quivering cave wall of their eyeball > At the merest flick of a lash > The only facts of any worth > Are not so easily dispersed > Yes, it matters how we learn > Real knowledge must be earned > Everything else is a husk > Wisdom’s simalacrum > – **Richard Dawson** in *The Tip of an Arrow* from The Ruby Cord