On 15 Jul 2006 at 00:34, "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Along these lines: Will anyone care in a year? two years? ten years? one hundred years?
Wikipedia is forever.
This is an interesting line of discussion... Just what does everybody think is likely to be the future of Wikipedia in ten, one hundred, one thousand, ... years?
Barring a total catastropic collapse of civilization (and possibly even then), it's likely that some copy of some portion of some version of Wikipedia will survive somewhere, given its wide dissemination. Such a thing will likely be an imporant resource for future historians / archeologists / anthropologists / etc. researching human culture of the early 21st century.
However, in such a scenario, the surviving Wikipedia would be merely a "dead" historical document, albeit a massive one with many alternative versions.
Or, is it the belief here that a "living" Wikipedia, still being actively updated and open to such updates from the general public, will continue to exist for centuries to come?