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New Software Fuels New Knowledge

New Software Fuels New Knowledge | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Wikipedia is a stunning human achievement. It brings together the work of tens of thousands of contributors, and its high-quality content is available at no cost in dozens of languages to anyone who can go online. When compared to Wikipedia, the printed Encyclopedia Britannica looks expensive, clumsy and primitive, even though it had reigned for decades as the finest compendium of human knowledge.

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How has technology redefined knowledge - SiliconValley.com

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"The basic reality is, (Wikipedia) is no more or less error prone than other sources of information," Walsh says. "I mean, how did we know books, written by one person, were true? How could they be up-to-date? Part of the beauty of Wikipedia is, if there is something wrong, it can be changed immediately."

 
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