2009/5/1 phoebe ayers <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 2009/5/1 Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> 2009/4/30 Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: >>>>> I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on >>>>> knowledge dissemination, >>>> >>>> Did you mean 300 years? >>> >>> Yes. Considering the stakes and our capacity for history, this seems >>> to me appropriate and possible. >> >> It is impossible to predict what humanity will be like in 300 years, >> if it even still exists, so it is completely impossible to predict >> what Wikimedia will be like or what challenges it will need to face. > > Can we perhaps split the difference between you two and say: 30 years?
I think we would be missing an opportunity if we didn't at least outline some rough ideas for a 30-year timeframe, but much more than that involves far too much guesswork to be worthwhile. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
