> Actually, it is. I expect Wikipedia to outlast the U.S. Dollar at least in > some form, or at least stick around as long as literature like "The Oddessy" > and "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and be a part of human culture longer than the > civilizations that produced that literature. Why would it be otherwise? > Something like Bitcoin may outlast these other world currencies too. >
There is a big difference between an encyclopedia and a currency. Specifically, an encyclopedia can survive in many different ways. If an archaeologist of the future stumbles across a locked safe in some ruins and finds it's stuffed full of CD-ROMS containing a Wikipedia backup, they can recreate Wikipedia. If the safe is full of dollar bills, he can't re-create the US economy. If it's full of bitcoin software he might be able to recreate the bitcoin software, but he can't recreate the system of exchange... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
