Cass R. Sunstein of the University of Chicago has written A Brave New Wikiworld, published in today's Washington Post. The article takes a very well balanced, forward-thinking look at the growth of wiki and aggregation of dispersed knowledge, from Wikipedia as cultural icon to specific wiki projects like the Wikileaks.org, the Autism Wiki, and wiki uses by NASA and the CIA. The article is well written and deserving of serious attention, so I'm going to quote just the last paragraph because it sums up the immense potential and impact of the wiki: "But the track record of the new collaborations suggests that they have immense potential. In just a few years, Wikipedia has become the most influential encyclopedia in the world, consulted by judges as well as those who cannot afford to buy books. If the past is prologue, we're seeing the tip of a very large iceberg."
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