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The thing is, there has always been too much information. That is to say, there has always been a great deal of bad information, or badly presented information, along with the good and the well done. So there has always been a role for the person who had the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff and the temerity to consign the chaff to oblivion....

My point is that there is no need, nor has there ever been one, for “gatekeepers.” The information has been there, for anyone with the time and resolution to dig for it and learn to make sense of it.

I find myself agreeing with what the author is saying at stages - i.e. the importance of people (networks) to help make sense of the world.

My point is that there is no need, nor has there ever been one, for "gatekeepers." The information has been there, for anyone with the time and resolution to dig for it and learn to make sense of it.

But finding, aggregating, and making sense of information is a useful set of tasks, and it is no surprise that in a decently open economy there arose businesses and other institutions to do so on behalf of persons who would value the service. It's hard to see what is sinister in this....

Online, like it or not, access trumps authority. Educators need to understand that key distinction.

I think the problem with instant information is that it allows people to avoid the hard work of forming their own opinions, gathering information and sifting through it and really reasoning about it. But this isn't a problem just about Wikipedia. It's a problem about the internet. And it's not a problem about the internet actually by itself at all. The internet is great. The absolutely huge amount of information that's available on the internet is a wonderful thing. The problem actually is in us.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

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