  == smartest person in the world ==  :The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World is the title of a book by Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs, published in 2004.  :It recounts his experience of reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica; ... Have any studies been done to determine how smart (or stupid) he would have become if he'd read everything in Wikipedia instead?   