I love Wikipedia.  It's one of my goto sources for information.  I know, I know... it can't be trusted.  Or can it?  I remember reading in the book, "The Starfish and the Spider" that Encyclopedia Britanica has about four errors for every hundred entries.  Wikipedia has about six errors for every hundred entries.  So, it's not that far off.  This collective knowledgebase is pretty stunning when you think about it.  So stunning in fact, that printed, it'd be virtually unusable.

2,559 of Wikipedia’s best articles are ‘featured articles’.  It’s these that Rob Matthews decided to press ‘cntrl + p’ on and print out (probably at work).  The result is this weighty tome of some 5000 pages.  I believe his piece was to convey that it is only through computers that this amount of information becomes palatable, searchable and essentially useful.

I wonder how this easy access to vast information will change our education priorities and systems.  I wonder if there will be a shift from having knowledge to simply knowing what knowledge to access and where for the right application and context.

I know I wouldn't want to go studying that pile right there.  I'll stick with Google... and Wikipedia.

What's your goto for information?  Any library goers out there?  Any Excite or Yahoo! users?

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