“With the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well,”
March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…