Need-to-Know Basis

Do parents tell their children everything? No. Kids are on a “need to know basis.” The rule applies to the children of God as well.

How much knowledge exists in the world today?

It’s a nonsensical question. How can knowledge be quantified?

Some people have tried. A study published in Science Express seven years ago attempted to calculate the world’s total technological capacity, that is, the “information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.”

The conclusion of this study — which is now outdated — was that “humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. (Yes, that’s a number with 20 zeroes in it.) Put another way, … that’s 315 times the number of grains of sand in the world. But it’s still less than 1 percent of the information that is stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being.”

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a whole lot of information. And that was seven years ago!

No single human being is capable of knowing everything. We are fed via media too much information as it is. We see too much, we hear...