Anyone who has read the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov knows that the story involves a secret society — actually, a couple or three of them — dedicated to keeping galactic history on course through the predictive power of "psychohistory." Now I'm not saying there is such a group (although one would do well to keep one's eye on this bunch), but I've often wondered whether a certain resource that I use all the time might not be a stubbed-out, mock-up, draft-one version of the first deliverable that the Foundation produced: The Encyclopedia Galactica.
The Encyclopedia Galactica was Asimov's vision of a single access point for all human knowledge. Well, maybe Wikipedia isn't quite there yet, but as Dan Gilmore reports, it's about to publish its 200,000th entry.
That's a start, folks. That's definitely a start.
via GeekPress