April 2017—Our ubiquitous access to (and increasing reliance on) search engines such as Google, Siri, Cortana, and others has resurfaced much of the intellectual landscape. The historical “Guardians of the Truth” no longer sit comfortably in ivory towers waxing poetic while issuing definitive determinations of “fact.” Today, when we want to know something, we reach for our phones. The answers, devoid of context and authoritative citations, seem to be so simple there.
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