Before Wikipedia,
comprehensive references on factual topics were most rapidly found in printed encyclopedias. This physically limited the amount of topics found in each series. Being printed as an indexed topic in an encyclopedia inevitably added cultural legitimacy to any topic.
The internet is enabling no limits to direct textual, audio and visual referencing of both archived and real-time, live forms of information.
The printed past is creating the initial trajectory of digital humanity.
Now anyone who learns of the worldwide web is capable of contributing or ingesting any aspect of this live electrical global collaboration~
which is not only evolving encyclopedias.
This net is evolving everything it touches.
Relationships, business, currency, gaming, communication...
for less than twenty years a new dimension has been actively participating in local and global life.