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My wife and I had a question we were discussing today...

"Who painted the cover art on the 'Layla' album by Derek and the Dominoes?"

We tracked down the answer on Google in seconds flat.

We all have access (on our desk, or even in our pockets!)to look up any possible question we could ever possibly have. Even questions for which there is no answer, like "What is the meaning of Life?", we can get plenty of opinions by history's greatest thinkers and finest minds.
We all walk around with immediate access to every Britannica Article and every University bookstore in history, the whole Alexfuckingandria Library. We are the first generation in history that had the ability to do this.

But unless you already know what you're looking for, or have a pretty good idea of what it is, you can't find it. Its all buried under light-years of white noise. The truth is out there, but you won't recognize it unless you're already educated. And its all so new, I can remember distinctly a time when I couldn't do it. In fact, I still ask questions as if there weren't a instant answer available on a screen, just a few keystrokes away. We are now surrounded by a generation of people with instant access to all the facts, who don't realize that. Once they get to an answer, any answer, they assume it must be right.

Shortly after learning about Emile Frandsen, I realized all this. And it terrified me. We have opened up Pandora's box. And there is no way to shut the lid.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/LaylaCover.jpg

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