In every elementary school class, in every high school and college course, in every job, in every church, in every denomination, on every floor of every building, there seems to be a resident “know-it-all.” You know the type.

As much as we despised and resented those resident know-it-alls, we love the current universal know-it-all. It’s name is . . . . . Google. But even in a world where the phrase “Google It!” has become every parent’s answer to every question we can’t answer, we still have that suspicious feeling that Google is sometimes too eager to show off what technology “knows,” and what humans don’t. And no one likes a show-off.

Those “in the know” are the most respected, the most powerful, and the most influential. Knowledge offers a way to power and prestige. Portals to knowled…