The internet has made "random fact retrieval" much faster for sure. In fact, I notice movies seem... less dumb than they were a few decades ago, and I have a th

The internet has made "random fact retrieval" much faster for sure. In fact, I notice movies seem... less dumb than they were a few decades ago, and I have a theory that that is why. But to really know something, you have to have studied it, even in the modern era. I can read an instantly-available wikipedia article about power generation, but I'm only scraping the absolute surface.