*Michael P. Lynch* # Progressive Summary Makes a distinction between Google-knowing (receptive knowledge) and true understanding. Just having more facts available to us isn't enough. There is value in being able to generate insight about reality on our own, through direct experience. # Definitions # Chapter Notes > “Data trails will follow us around like so many little sparks; dancing points not of light but of 1s and 0s. These data trails are already here. I am reminded of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s remark in his 1968 book Cancer Ward: > As every man goes through life he fills in a number of forms for the record, each containing a number of questions… . There are thus hundreds of little threads radiating from every man, millions of threads in all. If these threads were suddenly to become visible, the whole sky would look like a spider’s web, and if they materialized as rubber bands, buses, trams and even people would all lose the ability to move, and the wind would be unable to carry torn-up newspapers or autumn leaves along the streets of the city. They are not visible, they are not material, but every man is constantly aware of their existence… . Each man, permanently aware of his own invisible threads, naturally develops a respect for the people who manipulate the threads. ] # Quotes # References