Everything we want to know whenever we want to know it

Yesterday I was reading through some study notes I made back in 1998. I wrote with great excitement about the fact that I was going to be able to access the internet from home, not just in the office. It was a big deal. And now, 15 years later, the internet is on the TV, on the laptop, the iPad, the mobile phone. It’s all around us.

And what do I love most about this? The fact that the curious mind can always find an answer. It’s almost impossible to come up with a question and not be able to answer it somewhere on the internet. OK, there are some people from my past who I have lost touch with who don’t seem to have much of an internet presence. But wanting to know the name of a piece of music, where a place is, how to get hold of something.

It’s all there, accessible in seconds. So, for the first time in history we can feed our insatiable appetite for knowledge. Our curiosity can be fed whenever we want. How amazing!