The last 20 years in particular seems to have been an anomaly.

Memory has been optional in recent years, in fact it’s been counter productive to remember anything of importance. Inefficient to expend time on it. This is why collectively we have been de-learning and not using critical thinking.

Just like just-in-time manufacturing, the pendulum swung too far in the direction of efficiency and it will now swing back in the opposite direction to incentivise us having redundancy & autonomy.

Make no mistake, there’ll be a renaissance when these platforms we rely on for information become increasingly gated, inaccessible or diluted with more trash content.

Fairly obvious, personal responsibility is making a comeback. People will learn again… but only the hard way.