I think there’s a reasonably amount of science fiction that predicted that ideas might go viral and spread, but what is lacking is the idea of things like Wikip

I think there’s a reasonably amount of science fiction that predicted that ideas might go viral and spread, but what is lacking is the idea of things like Wikipedia where there is an overall level of trust, but that certain subject areas will be much less reliable. The closest I can think of is Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand where some subject areas of General Information (a system run by the Web) are notoriously out of date, but were probably accurate when written. I have often wondered if Tim Berbers-Lee read that book.