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Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Death of Encyclopedias

The death of encyclopedias, we tend to think of as the obvious thing is Wikipedia. As encyclopedia had, you could absolutely detect the voice of the person writing it in individuals. The element of that and also a much greater sort of depth of knowledge written by one person rather than everyone piling in. And then of course what happened was the internet. That really was the death now to encyclopedia as we know them.

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