Nowadays, if you don't know something, you ask Google. Google knows everything. Very practical - well, as long as you have internet access, otherwise it gets difficult. But this direct access to knowledge also has its downsides. On the one hand, we don't become smarter, although we perhaps look up and read a lot more than we used to, but rather dumber, because we don't have to memorise what we've read. Secondly, it accelerates the already existing process of losing authority. If anyone and everyone can look up anything, then there will be no need for experts. Or in short: nobody needs to tell me anything, I know better what is right and good. That seems extremely dangerous to me. After all, experience is not available via Google and it is precisely this that makes up a substantial part of qualified expertise. At least so much so that the relevant experts deserve the authority they deserve. Do you agree?
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