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Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)

New Books in Science

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Is Wikipedia the Last One Left?

Wicipedia, instead of being this herald of a new way of being, is really the last one left. It's the last place where ordinary people can actually collaborate with other people in that open source way. When rickipedia first came on the scene, it was characterized as like junk foodi's its garbage. And now, 15 years later, say, wik Wikipedia is the grown up on the web. In some ways, it's the last one because it's been overtaken by a surveillance capitalism and all these platforms associated with it.

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