geni wrote: > 2009/5/1 phoebe ayers <[email protected]>: > >> Besides, this is a (slightly long) generation, which makes a useful >> human-scaled measure to think in. I really want my kids, at some >> point, to be able to say in exasperation, "Mom, this isn't *your* >> Wikipedia anymore!" Or better yet: "Grandma, we are sick and tired of >> hearing how you had to write your own markup, both ways in the snow! >> We edit through the power of our minds now, OK?! Sheesh!" >> >> -- phoebe >> > 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.
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