Probably [[List of 100 most valuable companies]], [[Stock index movements last 100 years]] and [[Treatments to reverse aging]].
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I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page and see what was listed as my place of death. Then, I would make sure never to go there.
Newyorkbrad
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Yeah, like that would work! Some strange plot device involving disambiguation pages and arriving somewhere on the fatal day and discovering that a town has just changed its name, would lead to the inevitable denouement... (you know, like all those failed 'avoiding death' scenarios in the Final Destination film series - if you've not seen them, best avoided really).
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I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page and see what was listed as my place of death. Then, I would make sure never to go there.
Newyorkbrad
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Place of death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae,_New_York
Make sure you stay away from [[Troy, New York]] too. And don't bother predicting its destruction. No one will believe you.
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Yeah, like that would work! Some strange plot device involving disambiguation pages and arriving somewhere on the fatal day and discovering that a town has just changed its name, would lead to the inevitable denouement... (you know, like all those failed 'avoiding death' scenarios in the Final Destination film series - if you've not seen them, best avoided really).
Carcharoth
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I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page and see what was listed as my place of death. Then, I would make sure never to go there.
Newyorkbrad
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On a meta-philosophical point, would you be able in the ten minutes you had available be able to check if what you were reading was in a vandalised state or not, and would you have time to check the sources? Seeing as it is the sources you need to read to verify what you are reading... (no-one takes on blind trust what they read on Wikipedia without checking the sources, do they now??).
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PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
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Some equivalent of "random article" 100 times fast. But what if Wikipedia 100 years from now is delivered via wireless neural network, in the form of direct memory transfer? Then maybe you would need more than that 10 minute period just to figure out how to work the damn thing.
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On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
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On 12 February 2013 23:41, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
"gold" perhaps in the hope of finding where future reserves would be.
In terms of technology I guess Horseless carriage, telephone, and railroad for the more practically minded.
For the more fanciful (or at least those in touch with sci-fi pulp or otherwise) Time travel, Steam man, space travel.
Bit early for Free silver.
Putting my 1890 hat on I would say Romanov, as much of the shape of European history is decided by the player with the most options.
WSC
On 12 February 2013 23:41, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
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On 13/02/13 10:41, David Gerard wrote:
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
Maybe some disease of local concern. Water-borne diseases like typhoid or cholera would be a lucky choice, since ten minutes would just about give you time to follow a q.v. to "chlorination" and make the relevant discovery some 4 years early. Calcium hypochlorite was already widely available, all you've got to do is mix it with your drinking water.
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On 13/02/13 10:41, David Gerard wrote:
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
Maybe some disease of local concern. Water-borne diseases like typhoid or cholera would be a lucky choice, since ten minutes would just about give you time to follow a q.v. to "chlorination" and make the relevant discovery some 4 years early. Calcium hypochlorite was already widely available, all you've got to do is mix it with your drinking water.
As many of the articles I currently regularly check to see how badly vandalized or not they are...
Probably given that the scale of time is such, the relative amount of active editing in them wouldn't be a concern, so I would go for pure degree of concern in general.
Mother Theresa, Martin Luther, Solon, List of Occultists, Isaac Newton's Occult Studies.