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information ever known to humankind, we take for granted we’re only a quick Web search away from the answer. Of course, that doesn’t mean we understand it. In the coming years we will have to continue to teach people to think critically so they can better understand the wealth of information available to them.” —Jeska Dzwigalski, director of community and product development, Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life

“We might imagine that in 10 years, our definition of intelligence will look very different. By then, we might agree on ‘smart’ as something like a ‘networked’ or ‘distributed’ intelligence where knowledge is our ability to piece together various and disparate bits of information into coherent and novel forms.” —Christine Greenhow, educational researcher, University of Minnesota and Yale Information and Society Project

“More people will have more informational fuel to do more things. Smart will be about context and insight, not about memorizing information.” —Mark Surman, executive director, Mozilla Foundation

“Because the Internet provides effective real-time access to a wide variety of information, the need to memorize facts and figures, etc., has been significantly reduced. The educational system will eventually respond to this reality and provide training in information access and evaluation, synthesis of existing information to achieve new understanding.” —James Coyle, associate professor of communications, Franciscan University of Steubenville

“Human intellect will shift from the ability to retain knowledge towards the skills to discover the information, i.e., a race of extreme Googlers (or whatever discovery tools come next). The world of information technology will be dominated by the algorithm designers and their librarian cohorts. Of course, the information they’re searching has to be right in the first place. And who decides that?” —Sam Michel, founder and managing director, Chinwag

“Access to information increases awareness and potentially the intelligence of the searcher, but having the skill to gain access to reliable, quality information is not something that many Google users arrive to Google with. In its simplicity Google provides quick search results and these results are based on the