While I don't agree with you on the core argument (me and all my friends are instant fact checkers), I do have an anecdote to share. A couple years ago my wife

While I don't agree with you on the core argument (me and all my friends are instant fact checkers), I do have an anecdote to share. A couple years ago my wife and I spent 3 days on a train through India without any data. A bunch of times subjects came up we couldn't just google. Instead, we discussed them for hours, interrogating and deducing answers to questions we would have jumped straight to the answers for back home. (it wasn't trivia like "who was the actor in the movie", it was curiousity questions like "I wonder what was the origin of so and so law", and "I wonder how so and so mechanical/physical property works"