Discussion Week 12

Anika Sands
Professor Daly
ESOC 211
November 9th,2017

Today in class we looked at the article, Wikipedia and the Death of an expert. I thought that this article was very eye opening and made me start to think about how much humans depend on the internet in the modern days, and how much information you can learn from even just starting at a phone screen. 30-40 years ago, there was absolutely no way of having an app update you about current news, communicate instantly with people across different countries or continents, and have access to so much more information. I think that it comes to show that online collaboration can be very important to helping the internet be a better and more diverse place with lots of information that anyone can share. Although wikipedia gets a bad reputation, I think that it is very useful most of the time to look up quick information or get the answer to what you were looking for.

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