Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up by William Poundstone

Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up

William Poundstone

352 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction education psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
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The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But...

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