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Oh, this is HG Wells. I was thinking of Vannevar Bush's Memex from 1945 when I saw the title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
The Memex was more of a personal brain, which still sounds amazing to me.
It'll never catch on. On a more serious note, although it superficially sounds like he's talking about Wikipedia (in 1937... WHOAH) he probably isn't. The idea he's describing seems to be a very elite-driven technocratic idea, suffused with the sorts of imperialist ideals you'd expect an educated European in 1937 to expound.
>The idea he's describing seems to be a very elite-driven technocratic idea Right, he imagined a top-down organization that collected and curated information for the benefit of humanity. It seems like the trigger for HG Wells imagination was the "microfilm". Using that technology, he could see how vast quantities of information (old books in worldwide collections) could be photographed, compressed into organizable fi…
Yes, you can start writing an article on anything. But don't expect it to last long until someone comes along and flags it in violation of some guideline or other.
Also, most of the more historically significant articles are padlocked. Thus not just anyone can go about editing them.
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Are there any projects to build a decentralized Wikipedia? Perhaps using ipfs or similar technology. I did some brief searching but couldn't find anything. It would be a great step forward to ensuring we have a permanent indestructible knowledgebase anyone can access.
Wow, that's quite visionary. By the way, our startup is about doing exactly this: https://arbital.com/p/Arbital/ We are starting with mathematics, but plan to expand to all other topics as well. If you are interested in contributing, join our slack channel or newsletter ( https://arbital.com/newsletter/ ). We are planning to roll out small projects soon, which people can contribute to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...
https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclo00unkngoog#page/n1...
TL;DR: The British publishers of Chamber's Encyclopaedia were outraged to find subtantial and ideological edits to numerous articles within their encyclopedia.
I found the topic of particular interest as the first article listed as among those changed was among the topics I was hoping to see detailed in the publication.
There's some additional history (I'm in the midst of compiling more background), but the fact that the American publisher was backing economic viewpoints strongly opposed to those gaining the upper hand in Britain may just possibly have had something to do with this.
Wow, that's quite visionary. By the way, our startup is about doing exactly this: https://arbital.com/p/Arbital/ We are starting with mathematics, but plan to expand to all other topics as well. If you are interested in contributing, join our slack channel or newsletter ( https://arbital.com/newsletter/ ). We are planning to roll out small projects soon, which people can contribute to.