With the advent of technology, the smartphone in particular, it’s been opined that we are becoming more stupider the better the tech gets. This may have some merit, as the need to memorize items of recall is fast dwindling. Yet, I can’t help but think in a different direction on this. On many occasions, whether in conversation with friends, arguing with a coworker, or just in plain old deep thought, we’ve all come to a crossroads on a fact or idea that stumps the conversation and halts any further meaningful discussion because of one little factoid being disputed by either side. Be it the name of a certain president that was in office, or the year that a certain disaster took place, or the model of the first car with ABS, none of these tidbits would hold any real and meaningful value to a topic being discussed. More important at hand would be where the subject would end up. But alas, more times than I’d like to recall, hangups like these that two parties can’t agree on has derailed some genuine gold. Had this not been a point of contention, the discussion more than likely would have generated more depth and better understanding of each side than it ultimately did.