[Wikipedia-l] 80,000

[cunctator at kband.com]

> Anthere wrote:
> >ah, a postal code is similar to zipcodes in the us, or
> >areacode in England (except those are very very
> >accurate compared to ours). We have 36 679 communes.
> 
> >[snip]
> 
> >I believe it's probably very similar in the usa. But
> >that means if you put
> >78000 : it is Versailles. You could have a nice
> >article on Versailles maybe ?
> >But 78001 is also Versailles, so what do you put here
> >?
> >And in the 38140, there are several villages
> >concerned...
> 
> Ah, but then what would we do when the year 38140 comes around?  ;-)
> 
By then Wikipedia will have long since become the core of a godlike universal AI, 
able to disambiguate queries (which will be expressed not as verbal or written 
queries, but as low-level fluctuations in the post-organic brains of individuals) 
instantaneously and precisely.

Disambiguation pages are, of course, just a necessity of imperfect technology.