Nah, I don't think the average person will discover the cure to cancer.
While access to freely available knowledge is increasing, this knowledge is mostly broad, not deep. So we can have information on a lot of topics, but these topics aren't covered in very much depth.
Also keep in mind that Zhang was very much within the fold of academia when he discovered the 70 million upper bound on the separation of primes.
> While access to freely available knowledge is increasing, this knowledge is mostly broad, not deep. So we can have information on a lot of topics, but these topics aren't covered in very much depth.
This has bothered me quite a bit. I want to go to wikipedia and be able to find, to use Feynman's term, a map of the cat. I don't understand why it's not there.
While access to freely available knowledge is increasing, this knowledge is mostly broad, not deep. So we can have information on a lot of topics, but these topics aren't covered in very much depth.
Also keep in mind that Zhang was very much within the fold of academia when he discovered the 70 million upper bound on the separation of primes.