smarts
me plus the internet makes me smarter than any person alive 30 years ago. i think a large number of people have noticed this. you don't have to look very far to find examples of ordinary folks spewing wisdom from an internet soapbox as if they were the oracle of delphi. i also think most of them haven't noticed that a large number of *other* people have discovered exactly the same thing. they're behaving as if they think this iq boost applies only to them. which i find absolutely fascinating. the internet has made you the smartest man in the world. yet not smart enough to figure out - so is everyone else.