Perhaps I’m being a bit too optimistic, but access to information isn’t the same now as it was in the 20th century.
Although we have a lot of false information to filter through out there, we don’t have to rely on what’s available at the local library or what our friends and family believe. I hope that it’s going to be increasingly difficult to spread misinformation and fear mongering.
I’ve been using both Perplexity and Kagi for searching things, and it’s working out pretty well for me. The main thing that I find Kagi useful for is filtering to Fediverse results (which tends to be mostly Lemmy threads).
It’s pretty expensive though…