Now that we have all the knowledge at the command of our finger tips, what are we going to do now?

Question

I think we are obvious doing well in the department of seeking knowledge and gethering information. We do not have to have our donky ready to load our books upon and to take us to great places of knoledge and wisdom in the coutry; we do not have to go half way round the Earth for the purpose; we even do not need to go to local library any more, as it is all here presented to us at our desktop - all the wisdome of ages, works of great people of all times alongside a running comentary of what is happening right now in the world around us; it is all available at the click of a button. This is quite something, isn't it? The people of the past ages had no such thing available to them, I guess we should be much better people now, and if not then there must be somethign else that we need.

Answer 1

We don't actually have all the knowledge, there is much more then what you can find on the Internet. For one thing there are many books which you will not find on the web, because they won't make any money from them, if they're free on the web. There are many theories about what makes you a better person. Perhaps you could find a book about it on line. All religions would claim to have the answer, so would evolutionists. Perhaps we would need to read all the books, before we can make up our minds, but you can't so just a select few books will do. Unless your mind is already made up. What knowledge do we need? According to many, it's the knowledge of God. To "seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you".-Jesus speaking to his disciples about their needs.

Answer 2

It very much depends on what a person wishes to do.

Over the past five years I have been researching the slave trade on the Internet.

I have to tell you it is not an easy business. I do not mean it is difficult to find information, no, what I mean is that the subject itself is highly emotional.

I have found on-line photographs of child slaves on-board slavers captured by the Royal Navy in the 1850s-1860s. Absolutely horrendous, the conditions and the children just not cared for. You can see it in their faces.

I also found a site containing details of a former slave who died in the US in his 100s in 1949. Someone had carefully taken down his life story by audio/recording and then transcribed it to paper then to the Internet etc. He was a slave until age 12 in c1860s.

The most annoying discovery was to find out that Oliver Cromwell [Parliamentarian and MP for Cambridge] had two slave ships built at Deptford, not four miles from where I live. I am just devastated!

You just have to keep plodding on. It gets much much worse.

The Internet is the World Library and Information store.

It amazes me that in the early days when I first went on-line about 1998-2001 most of the big libraries, such as those up at Oxford Uni etc., behaved in the most appauling manner and treated visitors as some kind of annoyance. That seems to have changed somewhat but they're still a bunch of obscurantists in my opinion. They should open up or get their funding cut - my taxes pay for it by the way.

Answer 3

Good question. What Worries me is that people will lose their logic. I once had to supervise the build of a brick retaining wall. The wall was built about 230mm in front of a decaying wall. The existing wall was drilled through and into solid rock. Stainless steel wall ties were securely fixed through both the existing wall and rock face.. The new wall was tied into both. The cavity between the new wall and old was to be filled with concrete. Sounds good, but the concrete was to be poured in one. I did a quick mental calculation and realised the tonnage that would push against the new wall. So, what am I rambling on about. Everybody else involved reassured me that all calculations were put into a computer programme, and it was perfectly safe. My logic said no. After making a nuisance of myself, it was agreed that the five labourers working under the wall would move away. And yes, the wall did collapse under the weight of concrete.

We must keep using our common sense; something that our computers just haven't got the hang of yet.

P.S. when I write poetry, my imagination flies. People often ask, what inspired me to write something in a particular way. My experiences in life I suppose, and the way I see it. Take away my imagination and you just as well take away my soul. Computers, what computers????

Poet

Answer 4

Thing is, most people just don't care. Only those few who actually care will do anything with the knowledge available to them, and they are probably the ones who would climb that mountain to get it if it weren't presented to them at the click of a button.

Answer 5

We may have a great deal of knowledge at our fingertips these days thanks to computers, but the way the universe changes and breakthroughs are being made in medicines, we will never have all the knowledge. The important thing is what you do with it, and how you use it, whether for good or bad.

Answer 6

they say knowledge is power, but knowledge is useless if we do not know how, and are not able, to use it.
mankind will keep gathering knowledge and finding better ways of accessing it, but what we really need to do now is to apply what we know.

until then, most of that knowledge is useless.

Answer 7

This knowledge obviously doesn't include a dictionary!

Answer 8

Buy a bike

Answer 9

What we do not know cannot hurt us, but what we already know can destroy us.

Answer 10

USE IT WISELY!