Summary: What Would Socrates Say?

The author is afraid that we are going to become unaware of what intelligence is. He's afraid that if we don't understand what ignorance is then we can't understand what intelligence is. By asking questions and gathering information and data we gain insight and wisdom over a period of time in a variety of different categories. We learn best by asking important questions and testing different answers by what we think is fact.

The author says that because of Goggle, people have loads of information at their finger tips, but they don't know how to use it. The author asserts, "Socrates believed that we learned best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate." He feels that Google doesn't allow the process of gathering information, organizing data, turning data into knowledge and applying knowledge to real questions and problems. In following this process you gain wisdom.