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Honestly it's probably just how easily accessible things that are normally hard to reach for humans becomes.
If I want the upcoming weather, I can access a distributed network of government satellites, local weather monitoring stations, and independently operated weather monitoring relays, all combined together into an alert saying "It's gonna rain in 15 minutes" 3 seconds after I open the app.
If I want to talk to an expert on a subject, the author of my favorite books, a politician, or simply my friends, I can just send them an email or often a DM.
If I want to know about practically anything, there's either gonna be a site out there with someone tirelessly writing a 20 paragraph article about it, or a Wikipedia page contributed to by thousands of volunteers to make sure people like me could quickly find the information.
And if I want to share information I know about with other people, I can also go to Wikipedia, not as a viewer, but as an editor, and keep other people informed the moment they go to Wikipedia trying to answer a question of their own, or just feed their general curiosity.
This type of thing is way slower through books, live broadcast stations on TV, (though I suppose that still counts as "technology", just more legacy), having to meet up with your friends in person before you can talk to them, having to travel to a research institution and schedule a meeting just to talk to an expert, etc.
It just feels magical to have a question, look it up, and just get an answer. Just like that.