
The deletionists
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
00:00
Didero's Encyclopaedia
John mills translated an english encyclopaedia into french, which planted the seeds for a new kind of knowledge to flourish and spread. He got in trouble because he wrote articles being an atheist, but that didn't stop him from spreading ideas far and wide. After gugo started wickopaedia, it found its fertile ground in the united ats with telegrams alerting people they only had days left to buy the 19 o three edition. It's worth noting that one of his editors a guy named louis de jacourt wrote 25 % of the encyclopaia. And the original idea behind it was to the same way they built encyclopaemia britann
Transcript
Play full episode