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When I was a kid, my mom bought me the Encyclopedia Britannica. It weighed 130 pounds (according, ironically, to Wikipedia). I remember being amazed at how much information I suddenly had access to, thanks to the entries in those books. At night, we would have “question time,” when I would think of something I wanted to know more about and we’d try to find the answer in the pages of the encyclopedia. To me, this new access to information was empowering, but it also had limitations that as a kid, I didn’t fully understand. The answers on the pages were frozen in time the moment they were printed. And the topics were limited to things that an editorial board sitting in Chicago decided were important ...
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