Janet Vertesi, The Encyclopedia Project, Or How to Know in the Age of AI:
In the meanwhile, I’m reading the encyclopedia. And I’m enjoying the astonishing novelty of perusing otherwise hotly divisive topics absent the familiar sense of being inflated with rage. If not for Kung Fu Panda, I would never have realized—after 30 years of surfing the information superhighway—that it was possible to feel so, well, informed.