I believe this to be the opposite. With the digital age, any knowledge can be at your fingertips. Back then people had to rely on certain books to understand a topic, for example the Encyclopedia. My mother has A-Z books in a box somewhere. Those information will be heavily outdated as modern information try to be updated when new information is present.
Gravity is an attractive force that INCREASES as the mass of an object increases. An object with greater mass has a larger gravitational pull than an object of a smaller mass.