Free is the new intellectual elite. It's broader in scope, faster updated, and more importantly, Wikipedia is found to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britianica. *Maybe*
Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.
So if the world's oldest and most respected concise repositories of knowledge can knocked off by a community of socialists, why can't them same happen to the well established knowledge factories (universities). The lesson is that the internet is a wild place that can consume long established superpowers. This is sometimes true.
