Wisdom

Published: April 15, 2019, 7:08 p.m.

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What is happening to us, now that we have access to all the world\\u2019s knowledge at our fingertips? If the headlines are to be believed, we are swimming upstream through relentless waves of alternative facts, drowning in an ocean of misinformation. And the internet? It\\u2019s the culprit.

But here\\u2019s the thing: we are enthralled by what we think is online wisdom - the words of the sage, and the learned. Unfortunately, as we\\u2019ve discovered through a lot of mishaps, a lot of the information that\\u2019s out there isn\\u2019t particularly wise. Aleks Krotoski looks to traditional sources of wisdom to give us advice on what we should do with our library of knowledge.

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