September 2014 by Charlotte Metcalf

With the constant data stream, we no longer need to say we don't know something; there's even an expectation that we should know about everything anyone talks about. By Charlotte Metcalf

Device squad: is our information addiction changing our behavior?

In the eighties, when I was in my twenties, I worked as a freelance researcher, in television and on a movie about the Spanish Civil War. Every job invariably kicked off with a visit to the library.

I must have read more than 20 books about the Spanish Civil War and my job was to devour them and feed juicy historical chunks to the scriptwriter and director to add authentic color to the movie.

Back then, if you didn’t know something and calling a friend (or more often, my father) didn’t yield the required information, a quick call to The Daily Telegraph Information Service invariably did.

If the speed dial had been invented, their number would definitely have been on mine. I called at least five or six times a week and usually a well-spoken graduate was able to oblige within minutes.

Those of us who remember how long it took to research anything at all may believe that there is a benefit in gathering information slowly but very, very surely

You could ask them anything, from where to buy Dr.Brown soda to when Frank Lloyd Wright built his first house.

It was a time-consuming and expensive way of gathering information and meant having to employ people like me to do it.

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