> I gave up knowing things for relying on technology. Perhaps, it is not so much giving up knowledge but filling the first-level cache with other stuff, like t

> I gave up knowing things for relying on technology. Perhaps, it is not so much giving up knowledge but filling the first-level cache with other stuff, like the larger picture of the software you are developing or the ever growing number of abstraction layers below the code you are writing. And whether that is good or bad thing is an interesting question. I am not aware, that it has an definite answer, yet.