Take Wikipedia as an easy example. While it is often criticised for pandering to the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ – that is to say, whatever the majority and those with too much time on their hands believe is true tends to become ‘wiki fact’, more considered opinions are edited out by the ‘crowd’ – just look at the immense resource it has become.
The great libraries of antiquity, lovingly put together over decades, have nothing on Wikipedia, a project that has harnessed the knowledge of the global community, not just a handful of ‘wise men’, and which is available to everyone, everywhere for no charge.
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