They used to worry about calculators. From a technical perspective, Google and the web pages it gives instant access to are nothing short of manna from heaven. I have seen very little to fault the information I find when I get curious about some topic. A lot of the more advanced stuff is held “close to the vest” so you can’t find everything there is to know, but it’s moved accessibility to a new plateau. My grad school professor used to tell us never to accept anything we read in a paper at face value. On the internet, it is merely the illusion of authority that has been lost ... one doesn’t have to be reminded to read critically.
William Tyndale, c.1494–1536, was an English biblical translator and Protestant martyr. He was determined to translate the New Testament into English. Tyndale went to Hamburg in 1524, visited Martin Luther in Wittenberg, and at Cologne began (1525) the printing of the New Testament.
Cardinal Wolsey ordered Tyndale seized at Worms. Living in concealment, Tyndale pursued his translation, issuing the Pentateuch (1530) and the Book of Jonah (1536). His work was later the basis of the King James Version of the Bible. Tyndale was seized (1535) in Antwerp and confined in Vilvoorde Castle, near Brussels. His trial ended in condemnation for heresy, and he was strangled at the stake before his body was burned.
See The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ty/Tyndale.html