It used to be true that the more facts you memorized the smarter and more valuable you were to your circle. Now it looks like knowledge of how to search for answers is getting to be more important than the answers themselves.
Perhaps this is because the data behind the search is now changing faster than ever, not too surprising if you consider that more sensors are connected to the internet and available to query. eight billions devices in 2013 according to one source
So how do we search? Mostly with text that gets typed into a keyboard, but more recently, searches can be accomplished with words spoken into a device (Siri and the android microphone come to mind). Do we ever search in a spatial manner? Yes, on the old Microsoft windows 7 start menu,and on the mapping browser pages on the traffic maps. It seems that Windows 8 and 8.1 have moved away from the spatial searches, and it will be interesting to see how this affects it's adoption.
