On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, <WJhonson(a)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Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that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?