Voice Note 2

Back in my younger years, I was considered quite the wiz in trivia. I had my specialties but I could chime in with right answers on a variety of subjects because I had a collection -- a collection of facts.

Not everybody had access to these facts not everybody had recall of these facts. I had the books, I had done the reading, I had collected the facts and I was showing off my collection. That's no longer the case now. 

Fewer people collect facts because facts are no longer scarce, therefore fewer people value the collectors. Like everything else that's no longer collected, facts are just something you can have access to by opening up your phone. Ask someone something and he says "hold on a second. I'll Google it." I could be in the middle of the street and I have to look something up, "hold on a second I'll Google it." If you ever ask somebody to diffuse a bomb? "hold on a second I'll get a YouTube video" will be fine. I no longer have to be afraid.

I also no longer have to think everything's available for my brain to store put in short-term memory to use when I need it (and then discard) so trivia no longer has a home here. Who cares about it? I can get that answer and wait a split second longer, and I can source my answer. 

And this is why it isn't even fun being a nerd anymore.

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I'm not posting the original. I saved myself typing time but have all this extra editting time.