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25 years of using the internet and search engines to find out and know things (roughly, 1998 through 2023) was a pretty good run, I guess. Now that it's all dying in a ball of hellfire, I can't wait to find out what's going to replace it -- or if knowing things is just OVER now.

If business and commerce drags academia along with it into the hellscape future of not knowing things at automated scale, I'm sure a few stubborn wizards will go back to knowing things artisanally, by hand, on paper.
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A few times in recent years I've seen various crafters/makers chortling over getting hands on a finely-wrought old card catalog cabinet from a library that had no further use for it; after stripping the brass rods from the drawers they were ecstatic to repurpose those heavy old oaken furniture piece...