Access to information used to be scarce. We ranked college libraries on how many books they had, and time at the microfilm reader was booked in advance.
Today, if thereās something I donāt know, itās almost certainly because I havenāt cared enough to find out.
I donāt understand molecular biology, the history of Sardinia or much of agronomyābut thatās my choice. Now that information is widely and freely available, our sense of agency around knowledge needs to change.
It pays to acknowledge that this is a choice, and to be responsible for it. What else have we chosen not to know?
