Now that we have the Internet and much of the world's information is on it (Wikipedia included), it's much easier for an autodidact to appear to be (or even bec

Now that we have the Internet and much of the world's information is on it (Wikipedia included), it's much easier for an autodidact to appear to be (or even become) a polymath. I think that this reduces the significance of the term "polymath" quite a bit.