Wikipedia and Libraries Championing Intellectual Freedom; Internet Fuels Advances in Cooking and Photography while Astronomy Enters Golden Age of Discovery
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Wikipedia is an underappreciated source of in-depth knowledge on a wide range of topics like global studies, biology, philosophy, etc.
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There is currently a major anti-censorship movement going on in American libraries, with library workers fighting for intellectual freedom.
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Thanks to the internet, cooking has entered a golden age with easy access to recipes, techniques, and hard-to-find ingredients.
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Astronomy has seen huge advances in the last 30 years, with discoveries like exoplanets, signs of life on Mars, liquid water oceans in the solar system, etc.
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Photography has become extremely accessible due to cameras and video recording capabilities on smartphones that everyone carries with them.