The Limits of Human Understanding

It has been decades since the internet has opened a world of instantly available information to everyone with access to the technology. There has not been an equivalent growth in the ability to process that information: to validate and understand its meaning. To validate requires being able to assess the reliability of any information; and to understand requires being able to place new information in the context of prior knowledge.

The skills developed in the prior centuries during which knowledge was collected and passed on through direct contact with other people continue, but have suffered a decline in effectiveness. Modern societies have been built upon communities