The ease of navigating the new networks of the Twenty First Century allowed humanity to access the recorded history of Earth with their fingertips. Their new pocket-sized personal computers could access the Smithsonian, the Louvre, or read ten thousand year old tablets smuggled out of Baghdad while they drove around town. For the first time in history, the common man could see every version of the Bible ever printed at once, and they could listen to an opera sung live a thousand kilometers away. Instead humanity watched reality shows that were anything but realistic and posted pictures of cats to their cyberspace walls.