I'll take, "What is Trivia", for a thousand

I was watching an old episode of some game show the other day, and had a revelation. Trivia based game shows, for example Jeopardy and trivia type games, like Trivial Pursuit, used to be easier. Why? Because, with our relatively fast advancements in many areas (technology, medicine, entertainment, science), there comes much more history. What does this mean? It means that there is A LOT more stuff to know. So, when my grandparents were young, there was not movies or internet, much less even TV or radio. But now, by the time my kids are contestants on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Jeopardy, just imagine all the books, movies, celebrities, tv shows, historical events, sporting events, politicians and so on and so on and so on that will have happened. People's heads are becoming more and more filled with all this useless trivia of things that have happened, are happening and will happen. It's no wonder that all the great thinkers and inventors seem to be so long ago....they had more time and less to think about!