The Renaissance Man

     In historian Lisa Jardine's podcast, she recounts the history of information storing, keeping today's methods close for comparison. There are a few stark contrasts- one being the teams of scribes, barely keeping up with new knowledge versus the world wide web, a world where anyone can contribute and finding the right information in the sea of web pages is the issue. It is clear that we have overcome the problem of not being able to record everything for the trade-off of having whatever information we need so long as we know where to look. Google's estimated index of the web alone has reached upwards of billions of web pages alone. To have all of that information is surely powerful, but it brings with it an important consideration.