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To me, this a strange take. I'll never have the genius of Newton, Copernicus, Euler, etc. However I know and have access to so much more than them, just because of when I was born. So while I may be envious of their brilliance and insight, they would be envious of so much of what I take for granted.

So you not being surpassed may not be as inherently negative as you think. Apologies if inferred incorrectly.

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I think his point was that the initial expectation was that improved access to knowledge via the internet would unleash the potential for a higher average level of education. The correlation appears to the OP instead to be moving in the opposite direction.

Yup, that is what I was getting at. In many ways I lamented my late access to computers but it was probably better for me in the long run.

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