Seth Godin published an interesting blog post yesterday called The Wikipedia Gap.
I don't know about you, but when I hire someone, or go to the doctor or the architect or an engineer, I could care less about how good they are at memorizing or looking up facts. I want them to be great at synthesizing ideas, the faster and more insightfully, the better.
Until just recently, law students had to learn a painstaking process to look up cases by hand. No longer. The academy realized that teaching students to be great at Lexis was a smart idea.
Best line:
Selecting the facts is an important part of the process. Finding them shouldn't be.
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