I miss that table at my grandparents, for sure....it's just weird to me how many of the things I learn have come through this one organization!
That's a good point, it's a very influential site, for sure. It makes me a bit worried that it's too powerful and holds too much societal sway. But then I think about what it was like prior to wikipedia and it wasn't so different, really. Although for a deep dive in to most topics, you had to research a number of sources, people would still initially turn to either a dictionary or an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia's were the shit. I can recall sitting around my grandparents dinner table and at least three times during the meal, one of them would get up to fetch the dictionary or the encyclopedia. Now, people reach in their pockets. Not so different, only that whats in your pocket is the equivalent of hours of research in a library in minutes.