Yet though there’s seemingly no end to the advantages it brings to our daily lives, it’s perhaps the
fact that it’s a bottomless well of shared knowledge
that makes it arguably the greatest invention of recent centuries.
There is no topic that you can’t read up on, no answer
that’s beyond your reach if you know where to look.
Mysteries that would have remained elusive in all the decades up
to now can be solved quite literally with a few clicks of a mouse, a few stabs at a keyboard.
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