If
wikipedia like collections of information are still being written
by human beings in a couple of decades I will be rather surprised.
We've already to a large extent reached the point where the quickest
way to fill in info boxes would be computers making suggestions and
humans sanity checking them.
This sounds like a nightmare scenario. The problem is that as long as
we are focussed on filling in boxes we fail to think outside the box.
Not relevant. This is simply the state of the technology at the
moment. People are working on technology that can write entire
articles and eventually generate them on the fly.