Was it the best of the times?
Impacts of frequent fact-checking on Daily conversations.
You may have spent your prime in any decade but the 90s was a great time to be in India. Sitting at a dinner table or in a crowded tea stall your opinion mattered if you mentioned some interesting facts about any field of life. Wisdom was not judged by the accuracy of information provided by a person. It was rather a custom to value the loud voice delivered most eloquently.
One thing that we didn’t have at that time and probably we were at the juncture of being the last generation to miss that ability was the instant fact-checking ability at our fingertip. Google, Wikipedia, ChatGpt, etc. are nowadays serving the purpose of instantly verifying a fact stated by a person or an idea cropped into our mind, were absent at that time but were about to appear on the horizon pretty soon.
Next came a blend of generations that started using these tools. How did it change our social conversation habits? As was expected once the internet and computers started encroaching on the streets of society they penetrated the population unevenly. I am trying to focus on the impact of these advances on the habits of social conversation. It has become easier for anyone to verify a fact instantly.
It is not that every time you are making a bold statement you are being fact-checked but it so happens that you always get…
