on 1/14/09 9:38 AM, White Cat at wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com wrote:

> The Phoenix will surely rise again. How soon? Time will tell.
> - White_Cat
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> No, just profoundly sad that Wikipedia is in what seems to be an inexorable
>> decline. But idea-based projects generally have about seven years of
>> innovation before they lose steam (see SRI, Xerox PARC, GNU, Apple).
>> Perhaps
>> Wikipedia will enjoy a rebirth, but I expect its natural successor to
>> emerge
>> under a different umbrella. Fortunately, the important thing for posterity
>> is that Wikipedia's core assets are under a free license.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Right now it may take an
observatory telescope to detect it but it's there. But that light will only
remain there provided we all keep questioning. The important things are,
take nothing as "gospel", take nothing as a "given". We must all keep
questioning.

Marc



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