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How technology has redefined knowledge
Hailley Field, above, is “quiz princess” at a recent Brainstormer Pub Quiz at Pacific Coast Brewing in Oakland. Teams of trivia buffs compete without the benefit of smartphones or tablets, relying on raw knowledge. (Lipo Ching/Bay Area News Group)Easy access to anything and everything by anyone almost anywhere is surely liberating, democratizing, educating, timesaving. But with such a glut of information, how do we know what we know is true?OK, quick: How many times do the words “America,” “free” and …
