Assume you’re invited to write for a print symposium on Plato’s Philibus or Rousseau’s Emile or Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition or Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots or even Leo Strauss’ The City and Man. Or assume you’re asked to prepare an essay for a scholarly journal on a topic such as “knowledge in a digital age.” Where do you begin and how do you proceed? The answer is simple: you do digital research – you “Google it.” That is both the answer and the problem.
https://epochemagazine.org/41/the-future-of-thinking-in-a-digital-age/