Submitted by Haoran on 1 January, 2010 - 05:06
I was reflecting just now (and I don't really know where it came from; I just woke up in the middle of the night and it was there), that our very common response to a problem (for instance, "Why is a a laser red?" or "Will a Wii play DVDs?") is to Google it (probably through your iPhone).
So much so that "to google" has become a verb, from the proper noun ("Google").
What you invariably find is that someone has asked the question before, in some form or other.