A Saturday evening spent watching mid 90s reruns of Who Wants to Be Millionaire may seems an unlikely starting point for a blog post, but here goes. I began to notice that the questions seemed quite easy. I thought perhaps I was just having a good run, though several episodes later I had realised that actually the questions are easier than the relative ones you may get at the same point in the game today. I remember in particular one question was ‘How many pyramids are in Giza, Egypt?’ Now this was for the £250,000 and without Googling I can be pretty assured in saying it is three, and excuse me for making sweeping presumptions but I imagine you could, too.

Then I immediately jumped to the conclusion that the internet, or more specifically, access to a nigh-on infinite amount of information has resulted in people with a stronger knowledge base. Not more intelligent, per se, but simply a population who know more facts.