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> [“Today, the fastest and easiest way of knowing is Google-knowing, which means not just “knowledge by search engine” but the way we are increasingly dependent on knowing via digital means. That can be a good thing; but it can also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/today-the-fastest-and-easiest-way-of-knowing-is-google-knowing-which/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

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## More by Michael P. Lynch

> [“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/as-the-literary-critic-and-writer-leon-wieseltier-remarks-every/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“Information is the atmosphere—what the philosopher Luciano Floridi calls the infosphere—of our lives.7 But the fact that we live in the infosphere, that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/information-is-the-atmosphere-what-the-philosopher-luciano-floridi/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“And it is why so many of us who use Facebook are still troubled by its siren song: it is a simulacrum of intimacy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/and-it-is-why-so-many-of-us-who-use-facebook-are-still-troubled-by/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“We digital humans do have access to more information than ever before—whether or not we have neuromedia. But it is also true that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/we-digital-humans-do-have-access-to-more-information-than-ever-before/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“One way of describing the direction in which our own culture is moving is that many of us are starting to adapt what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/one-way-of-describing-the-direction-in-which-our-own-culture-is/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“My hypothesis is that information technology, while expanding our ability to know in one way, is actually impeding our ability to know in other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/my-hypothesis-is-that-information-technology-while-expanding-our/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“But without understanding, something deeper is missing. And our digital form of life, while giving us more facts, is not particularly good at giving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/but-without-understanding-something-deeper-is-missing-and-our-digital/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

> [“Today, the fastest and easiest way of knowing is Google-knowing, which means not just “knowledge by search engine” but the way we are increasingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-p-lynch/today-the-fastest-and-easiest-way-of-knowing-is-google-knowing-which/)

[Michael P. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-p-lynch/)

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