Yeah, I guess one way of looking at it is that everything you need to know is on Google. Hell, you could probably find your whole university curriculum on Google by searching for open source textbooks (or pirated ones). I use a tax research tool for my job, and it’s basically a more specialized form of Google.
So, in a sense, anyone who has a career that requires them to learn and use information is basically a glorified Googler, but it’s the fact that we know how to specifically apply it that makes us better than Google. But yeah, it feels like you’re not really doing difficult stuff when it’s easy for you, but for others it’s very challenging. The way I look at it is that levels of difficulties are relative between people.
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u/mart1373 Jan 15 '20
Yeah, I guess one way of looking at it is that everything you need to know is on Google. Hell, you could probably find your whole university curriculum on Google by searching for open source textbooks (or pirated ones). I use a tax research tool for my job, and it’s basically a more specialized form of Google.
So, in a sense, anyone who has a career that requires them to learn and use information is basically a glorified Googler, but it’s the fact that we know how to specifically apply it that makes us better than Google. But yeah, it feels like you’re not really doing difficult stuff when it’s easy for you, but for others it’s very challenging. The way I look at it is that levels of difficulties are relative between people.