The Curious Case Of The Missing Curiosity

Allan Milne Lees
6 min readFeb 18, 2020

Why is it that despite all the wealth of information available at our fingertips, most of us seem content to be knowledge-lite?

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I have to admit I was an odd child. I learned to read and write early on, but that wasn’t the worst of it.

The worst of it was that I watched adults and they seemed clueless to me. I listen to them talking and for a while I wondered if they…

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Allan Milne Lees

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