Delirium wrote:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I just wanted to add that for me, a huge part of the motivation for what we are doing is people who are not going to be able to get online reliably for years or decades to come. Paper is still the cheapest way to distribute content in many parts of the world.
Is that really true?
So I am told by people "on the ground" in Africa. There is a desperate need for books that kids can take home. Many people have to travel two hours or more to reach a location with a computer. Don't underestimate how bad things are there.
It is very likely that our content will be more useful as WikiReaders on topics of specific interest to those customers than as a straight general encyclopedia.
--Jimbo