User:ThomasW/Notes small notes

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/02/internet-smart-information-google Fay Schopen

"Knowledge has always been, partly, an illusion. Consider the popularity, a few years ago, of a book called How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read. Its French author, Pierre Bayard, points out that culture is “a theatre charged with concealing individual ignorance”.

"I, like many, treat my smartphone as an extension of my brain. Can’t remember something? Google it."

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