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> The "information age" might be coming to an end. This is a little melodramatic, no? Access to information, even without Wikipedia or Reddit, can still be fo
by dartos 3y ago
> The "information age" might be coming to an end.
This is a little melodramatic, no?
Access to information, even without Wikipedia or Reddit, can still be found easily (compared to pre internet days)
I personally don’t use google search anymore, but can still find links to public MIT textbooks (like SICP or Deep Learning) by searching on there. I’m sure google scholar, scihub, and arxiv will be around for a good while.
I’m sure if Wikipedia falls, another encyclopedia would take its place, since so many primary sources are still discoverable if you know the terms to search for. Maybe with a paywall, maybe not.
- Phenomenit 3y agoYeah the problem is that academia has the same issue with garbage papers. As long as information has some ad value, be it commercial or political it will fill all spaces with garbage to make a buck.
- ffsm8 3y agoI don't think it's melodramatic. First time I've heard people making that claim was around 2020 in the context of corona iirc. I think they called it "the age of misinformation", and that has only become more relevant since then, so I think it was even more on point then they realized back then.