Read this if you’ve never used an encyclopaedia

It may answer all your questions

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I definitely don’t have all the answers, but I wanted to see where your brain goes with these scenarios.

Just google it

You’re having dinner at your friend’s house. There are about 5 or 6 of you there and you start discussing a certain football match. It happened nine or ten years ago so you can’t quite recall some details. Then you and another friend start arguing about who scored.

Luckily, Frank quickly whips out his phone and boom you have the answer. Argument settled. Onto the next conversation, or discussion, which can also be settled fairly quickly.

Sound familiar?

A calendar appointment

You were with your mates last week and you all planned to meet up again. The time and place was set, and shared in the WhatsApp group. But you know what it’s like in those groups. So much banter and offensive images flying around, or other random convos that whoever wrote it and whatever was said has gone.

You don’t have anything in your personal calendar — why would you, there was no Google invite. So you pop a voice message over to Carrie who also forgot, she listens and then pops a voice message to Malcolm who calls…