[WikiEN-l] Annoying exonyms (was: hatnotes)

[Emily Monroe]

> but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a  
> part of that?

You mean the Wikimedia foundation?

Emily
On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay.  It's been
>> copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it.
>> Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more  
>> years at
>> the most :)
>>
>> In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant
>> streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and  
>> computing power will
>> be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time.  After all any million step
>> computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons,  
>> you don't even
>> have to be in a waking state.  Hey that's gives me an idea!
>
> Let's run with it though... you're going with the (I think fairly
> sound) idea that the digital landscape will be very different 20 years
> down the line... but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit
> wouldn't be a part of that?
>
> Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that
> give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that
> that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
>
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