The Irreducible Complexity of Society (2006)

Add to that the the amount of additional information or metadata needed to specify what category the knowledge "pigeon" is, how it relates to other "pigeons", the sources of knowledge that led to the discovery of the pigeon etc and how the pigeon can be applied. In some ways, perhaps knowing the framework for how chunks of information relate to each other, or how to traverse it, will be more important than knowing the information itself.

It wouldn't be difficult to posit that HTTP and the indexing engines built on top of it is that framework. So even as the sum of knowledge and its metadata grows, and the diversity of the knowledge economy between individuals grows, the fundamental principals for discovery of knowledge remains the same size and complexity.