[igk]

>What does Internet do to curiosity? Or what happens when curiosity is quenched withing seconds of being aroused?

For a substantial part of the population, this happens:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki-hole

If you have ready access to information, you hunger for more, because after you understand one concept or fact, you NOTICE all the other things that depend on that, be they new things building on top or inconsistencies in other fields conflicting with your new knowledge

[coldtea]

>For a substantial part of the population, this happens:

For an even more substantial part of the population, the "I'll pretend like I know things just because I can look them up in wikipedia or some such source" happens.

[TeMPOraL]

Which is great! The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge.

[RandomOpinion]

> The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge.

I have a pile of physics textbooks sitting nearby but that doesn't make me a qualified physicist. Availability of knowledge isn't worth a thing if it's never been integrated into your mind.

[qb45]

It's great to know what knowledge exists and where.

It's less great to think that you know something just because you could swear you have read it on the Internet once, which I think is what GP meant. It's not unusual to see people post bullshit because they think they understand something they've read on Wikipedia or a random blog or forum but actually they know shit about it.

[athenot]

And for the parody version of that, The Onion has put together this site. :)

http://www.clickhole.com

[L_226]

I got bored a few weeks ago and made (a very basic!) something[1] to turn the wikihole into a big single article.

[1] - https://wikiflat.herokuapp.com/about