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I do think there will always be this detectable weird KT-boundary starting around the mid-late 90's where information is just hard to come by (on the internet). Important stuff like GI Joe cartoons and news stories will of course be available, but simple everyday facts and figures will be really hard to uncover.

So I 100% agree with you that this is a pretty huge transition and will be hard for them to look back over, but they will always have a chance to experience ignorance, but only when they look for boring stuff from the last century.

> They will fundamentally never understand the idea that it used to be hard to know something.

Except perhaps that very idea--they won't know not knowing.

>They will fundamentally never understand the idea that it used to be hard to know something.

It's still hard to know things, but it is much easier to look things up.

It's also easier to change the meaning of things when nobody knows anything.

Well, it is easy to look something up, but it is still hard to know something.