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Very interesting point.

I feel like the situation is even more extreme in a sense. It seems like ubiquitous information disrupts a large percentage of all possible story plots.

Most story plots hinge on ignorance and discovery. With no physical personification of ignorance, a plot is simply less compelling.

Imagine - * Odysseus travels through exotic, distant lands, that he just forget to do Google earth on beforehand, * Why wait for Godot when you can just give him a call? * etc.




You could argue that ubiquitous information makes real life more bland, not just stories




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