Thoroughly, thoroughly agree, of course, and that too is part of what makes up urban savoir faire – what constitutes being urbane even.

It’s entirely possible, as you suggest, that we’ll come to admire those best able to navigate the pitfalls and roadblocks thrown up by urban informatics, but for whatever reason it doesn’t strike me as being quite the same thing. I wonder, for example, if it’s quite as performative – Google-fu is harder to show off than the knack of knowing where services are located (especially specialist ones), and developing relationships with those who provide them.