One of the disadvantages of having so much information and diversion readily available on the internet is that people use it. We are a curious species, and it has become so simple to appease ourselves by frenetically searching the internet.
Sometimes this ability is put to great use, quickly locating information and even research to forward an idea or conversation. But often it is used as a distraction and acts to prevent us from building focus or expertise.
Building expert knowledge or skill in an area takes time and focus. Years are dedicated to research, study and practice. As a generation grows who has never known life without YouTube or hand held video games, this focus is dissipating.
Expertise, especially artistically, requires either exceptional focus that usually stems from passion or neurosis. It is no wonder that artists have the stigma of being slightly insane. Most people do not understand the frame of mind and life that it takes to build expertise, much less creativity.
Creativity, whether it be in a musician, a painter or an electrical engineer, requires knowledge and confidence to try what has never been tried before. Who will build that expertise when there is such ready distraction on the world wide web.
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