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Undertoad · 11-13-2006, 01:15 PM

Wikipedia is absolutely one of the internet's best results, a coalescing of the net's wisdom that has become a vital resource. With it, the collective accuracy rate of the world rises; if Wikipedia is only 97% accurate, that's an improvement over the 60% (source: my asshole) you'd get with a simple Google search.

A tremendous amount of foresight and good decisions have gone into the thing, and I'm the usual techno-optimist but I think it is part of the net revolution that makes us all more productive and innovative.

11-13-2006, 01:15 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Wikipedia is absolutely one of the internet's best results, a coalescing of the net's wisdom that has become a vital resource. With it, the collective accuracy rate of the world rises; if Wikipedia is only 97% accurate, that's an improvement over the 60% (source: my asshole) you'd get with a simple Google search. A tremendous amount of foresight and good decisions have gone into the thing, and I'm the usual techno-optimist but I think it is part of the net revolution that makes us all more productive and innovative.