All Hail the Information Triumvirate! (The Web, Google, and Wikipedia)

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All Hail the Information Triumvirate! (The Web, Google, and Wikipedia)
      

Three things have happened, in a blink of history's eye:

(1) a single medium, the Web, has come to dominate the storage and supply of information, (2) a single search engine, Google, has come to dominate the navigation of that medium, and (3) a single information source, Wikipedia, has come to dominate the results served up by that search engine.

Even if you adore the Web, Google, and Wikipedia - and I admit there's much to adore - you have to wonder if the transformation of the Net from a radically heterogeneous information source to a radically homogeneous one is a good thing.

Is culture best served by an information triumvirate?

         

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