Your title is absolutely true, and you can tell that by the way our current society (run by people who don't want independent thinkers) is treating them. Public libraries are getting budget cuts; Little Free Libraries are being hassled; one of the Occupy groups had their library destroyed because the media was pushing the "animals squatting in their own waste" narrative and a group library showed that for a lie.
In Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan, she postulates a society in which almost everyone has an eidetic memory, and nothing needs to be written down. This society has no libraries, and as a result it has stagnated somewhat. Kirk is thinking at one point (paraphrased from memory) that when you learn something directly from another person, you're more likely to also pick up their thoughts and opinions about it. When you look something up for yourself, you're more free to reach your own conclusions.
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Date: 2016-04-15 07:14 pm (UTC)In Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan, she postulates a society in which almost everyone has an eidetic memory, and nothing needs to be written down. This society has no libraries, and as a result it has stagnated somewhat. Kirk is thinking at one point (paraphrased from memory) that when you learn something directly from another person, you're more likely to also pick up their thoughts and opinions about it. When you look something up for yourself, you're more free to reach your own conclusions.