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Abstract
Good conversations open up a common world. The boundaries of that world are defined by shared knowledge. The normative content of knowledge is the concern of general education, and its force comes to life as background knowledge in conversations and in the way we experience the world. Background knowledge is present in memory. Information technology tends to make memory dispensable and ignorance normal—it is no longer the absence of knowledge, but rather the ability to know, the availability of information, accessed when needed. The result is an attenuation of our being in the world.
Notes
1. A related distinction is between fluid and crystallized knowledge (see Cattell Citation1971).
2. For support of this point and for addenda to what follows, see Floridi Citation(2013).
3. Capriati later claimed that it was her brother who asked the question (see Dillman 2001).
4. Goldman Citation(1999) discusses, but rejects, “shortcuts” to knowledge.
5. Malamud and Pop-Eleches Citation(2010) contains a survey of relevant research, including research on the United States, but centers on a social experiment in Romania.