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“It’s not what you know,” writes Google’s Marissa Mayer, “it’s what you can find out.” That’s as succinct a statement of Google’s intellectual ethic as I’ve come across. Forget “I think, therefore I am.” It’s now “I search, therefore I am.” It’s better to have access to knowledge than to have knowledge. “The Internet empowers,” writes Mayer, with a clumsiness of expression that bespeaks formulaic thought, “a more efficient use of time.” The late Richard Poirier subtitled his dazzling critical exploration of Robert Frost’s poetry “the work of knowing.” At his best, wrote Poirier, Frost sought “to promote in writing…