The ‘googlearumus’ could join the dictionary

We know what an ‘ignoramus’ is: someone who is profoundly ignorant, often with the implication of claiming knowledge he does not have.

In recent years this person has acquired a digital-age cousin who, immersing himself in the great pools of knowledge and half-knowledge and downright nonsense in the unfathomable world wide web, emerges still without any real expertise or critical competence, yet arrayed in a formidable semblance of knowledge and ready in his own mind to do intellectual combat with all comers.

We need, it seems to me, a name for this modern relative of the ignoramus.