The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It’s how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. It’s not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.

— Adam Grant (via X)

I had been thinking about why the proliferation of new apps for collecting and synthesizing information (see: Sublime, Tana, mymind, alongside Obsidian, Roam Research, etc) and this quote puts it quite succinctly.