Head in the cloud: why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up

Introduction: Facts are obsolete

Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect. "I wore the juice" ; A map of ignorance ; Dumb history ; The one-in-five rule ; The low-information electorate

Part Two: The knowledge premium. Putting a price tag on facts ; Elevator-pitch science ; Grammar police, grammar hippies ; Nanoframe ; Is shrimp kosher? ; Philosophers and reality stars ; Sex and absurdity ; Moving the goalposts ; Marshmallow test ; The value of superficial learning

Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world. When dumbing down is smart ; Curating knowledge ; The ice-cap riddle ; The fox and the hedgehog.

Introduction: Facts are obsolete

Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect

1. "I wore the juice"

2. A map of ignorance

3. Dumb history

4. The one-in-five rule

5. The low-information electorate

Part Two: The knowledge premium

6. Putting a price tag on facts

7. Elevator-pitch science

8. Grammar police, grammar hippies

9. Nanoframe

10. Is shrimp kosher?

11. Philosophers and reality stars

12. Sex and absurdity

13. Moving the goalposts

14. Marshmallow test

15. The value of superficial learning

Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world

16. When dumbing down is smart

17. Curating knowledge

18. The ice-cap riddle

19. The fox and the hedgehog.