I posted this question to the co-workers the other week and the consensus is still undetermined. Here is how it all began... We were eating gourmet hot-dogs at a place near the office that has some really good hot sauce. We discussed how bad it would be to get that sauce in your eyes. It would be torturous. This got us on the topic of torture and I inquired about bamboo torture techniques. Basically, you bond someone to the ground underneath new bamboo and apparently, because it grows so quick, it will grow through the unfortunate person. This inevitably led to the question, "How fast does bamboo grow?". Back when I was in school finding this answer would have meant a trip to the library, or an encyclopedia or some other source of information that is not the internet. That could have easily taken an afternoon to find the answer. Well, I went online and had the answer in less than a minute. Which leads me to the topic of this blog. So, what is the answer? It is a given that questions like the one above are easy to find answers to, meaning that the internet is full of useful, easily accessible information. However, what about all the dis-information? Are the ideas and thoughts of all internet capable humans adding to the Global Knowledge of humanity or is it doing the opposite? I personally think all the world's information at anyone's fingertips has made humanity smarter, but also more dangerous. Oh, and bamboo grows 2 inches an hour!