Yet though there’s seemingly no end to the advantages it brings to our daily lives, it’s perhaps the
fact that it’s a bottomless well of shared knowledge
that makes it arguably the greatest invention of recent centuries.
There is no topic that you can’t read up on, no answer
that’s beyond your reach if you know where to look.
Mysteries that would have remained elusive in all the decades up
to now can be solved quite literally with a few clicks of a mouse, a few stabs at a keyboard.
When I was five, my twin sister walked into the trees behind our house and never came back. The police told my parents her body was found,…
I leaned back, my eyes never leaving hers. “Something I should have done a long time ago,” I replied. The Judge tore open the envelope and pulled…
What should have been a joyful moment turned uneasy when I realized my in-laws were whispering about my father during my wedding reception. Their polite smiles hid…
My son-in-law knocked me to the ground. My daughter dragged me out by my hair while the neighbors watched. “Get out—it’s three million,” she said. They thought…
Concern spread across the Winter Olympics after American skiing legend Lindsey Vonn suffered a serious crash during the women’s downhill final in Cortina. The incident happened shortly…
The three words I said were simple, yet they held the weight of an entire world within them: “It’s over. Leave.” For a moment, my son and…