People are poor vessels for knowledge: they were not designed for knowledge, but for reaction. They struggle to retain any of it - invented books as workarounds, then the internet so that nothing needed to be learned. Knowledge has moved on. Knowledge is moving to the technology: storage and analysis of data beyond our wildest imaginings. There are some odd people swimming upstream - using google maps to memorise routes rather than trusting to SatNav - but as you note, with chaos comes turbulence. I am not sure I entirely welcome becoming a node - a neuron - but sure that I don't really have a choice.