Does increase traffic and the use of the word 'wisdom' in Web 2.0+ equate to an increase in human wisdom?

Interest Appears to be Growing in the use of the word "Wisdom"?

Wisdom – What is It?

Extract . . . . .

• personal wisdom,

• socio-cultural wisdom, and

• the role that higher education could play in the development of both of these.

"People have been interested in wisdom for a long time. In the East, we can look back to the Upanishads, the teachings of the Buddha, Confucianism, and Taoism. In the West, it began with a few Sumerian and Egyptian texts, followed by the Old Testament prophets, the Greek philosophers, the Christian gospels, and the theologians of the Middle Ages.

The views of wisdom presented by these writers differ in detail. But they are consistent in the idea that wisdom is desirable and, in some sense, superior to ordinary. In the 20th century — for reasons not yet clear — the term wisdom fell out of common usage. People used words like excellence, intelligence, cleverness, aptitude, proficiency, and brilliance that danced around the edges of wisdom, but they avoided the term itself.

For much of the 20th century, wisdom was also out of favor in academia. Despite the fact that philosophy literally means love of wisdom, as we've already heard, wisdom was not considered a suitable subject for scholarly study. That began to change about 1980, and since then reports on 36 wisdom research studies have been published. .....

Interest in wisdom now appears to be growing in the general population as well as academia. During the past year the number of Web pages worldwide has grown by about 200%. During that same period, however, the number of Web pages containing the word wisdom grew by 1200% — to a present total of more than 170 million pages!

- WISDOM: The Highest Aim of Life and Higher Education A text (with slides) rendering of Copthorne Macdonald's “Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar” address at Rollins College April 5, 2006.

- The Wisdom Page --- a site devoted to wisdom resources

(Ed: Rather doubtful that an increase in the use of the word 'wisdom' actually equates to any real increase in human wisdom.)