Will increasing lack of curiosity also make us stupider?

His analogy is simple. Think of a librarian anywhere in the world–they had the most access to knowledge but the librarian was rarely the most well-read person in the room. Someone from outside would come in and read more than the person with easy access to the books.

Dominic, author of the recently published Microstimuli and chief evangelist at Fractal Analytics, calls this the ‘Librarian’s Paradox’. Abundance, he says, breeds a peculiar kind of intellectual complacency.