I am annoyed every time I read a statement of this form: "most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge" No. Only people wh

I am annoyed every time I read a statement of this form: "most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge" No. Only people who have never used a university library would believe this. Most of humanity's knowledge is locked behind paywalls. Once Sci-Hub and related efforts are done breaking down the paywalls and we have a generation growing up expecting knowledge to be available, we might see a big difference.