Google Is Killing Parenthood
How information abundance is overshadowing wisdom.
Don’t Let Information Abundance Overshadow Wisdom
Tristan, my son, doesn’t believe in what I tell him. My life’s instruction book seems to be outdated. Whatever I say seems to be wrong, or most importantly, obsolete. “I Googled it, your theories about life are wrong” — he loves to tell my wife and me, “Your way of thinking is outdated.” The point is he just doesn’t Google things, he looks for the latest content: 2016 seems to be a great vintage for him when it comes to knowledge. Wait, did I say knowledge or information?
2016 seems to be a great vintage for my son when it comes to knowledge
Like my son, many of us miss the point that Google mainly provides information in the form of news, tutorials, videos, life lessons, you name it. That’s pretty clear based on Google’s mission statement: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. You see, information. It doesn’t say ‘provide knowledge’. This is …
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