Have you found yourself drumming your fingers in impatience more lately? Connect Images via Getty Images When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for relevant material on the internet. If the paper was going to turn out well, we students needed to patiently comb through piles of material, weaving what we found into a coherent argument that was well-supported with evidence. Unbeknownst to us at the time, our teachers were