a) Gold implies malleability...information is only malleable for those suggesting it, while it becomes rigid for those consenting to it. Information represents fool's gold distracting from the infinite malleability of inspiration.

b) What you refer to as golden age isn't about information but about the sharing thereof, yet since it happened within a web/net it was only ever about harvesting, hence utilizing the fool's gold of information to lure the many into the web/net of few.

b) History cannot be special, because storing something makes it common.