Fearless (The Lost Fleet, #2)

by Jack Campbell

A century built up a lot of subtle as well as not-so-subtle differences in the way people thought and expressed those thoughts.

Geary sometimes wondered just how much accumulated knowledge mankind had hopelessly buried within databases collecting and endlessly storing everything possible. In ancient times, knowledge had been lost because copies no longer existed. Nowadays it was lost because copies of everything existed and finding a particular piece of information made the old needle in a haystack look like an easy task, even if you knew the information was there to begin with.