>If everyday people have near-instant access to information, how will we continue to assess expertise moving forward? Surely it’s not enough to just have access

>If everyday people have near-instant access to information, how will we continue to assess expertise moving forward? Surely it’s not enough to just have access to rote information, like in the case of the cheating test-taker. We will also expect our experts to have the deep understanding that comes from experience in a domain. We've always expected professionals to have an understanding. We've just been using memorization as a proxy for this. Any 14yo with a cell phone can go on Reddit give you caned advise about investments or why your car is making a funny noise. But we don't trust teenagers googling stuff with those sorts of things in the real world because there's a huge difference between being able to pattern match information and actually understanding what's going on hence why we don't get advice we care about from anonymous people with backgrounds that can't be vetted Professional education has a filter in front of it so it's going to be behind the curve when it comes to reckoning with the realities of information access in the modern age but it'll have to figure something better than tests out eventually.