"The greatest innovation of the last generation has been the destruction of information barriers that used to keep strangers isolated from one another......What’s happened over the last 20 years – and especially the last 10 – has no historical precedent. The telephone eliminated the information gap between you and a distant relative, but the internet … Continue reading The Three Main Forces Shaping the World: Demographics, Inequality, and Access to Information
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"On [Archive of Our Own, a.k.a.] AO3, users can put in whatever tags they want. (Autocomplete is there to help, but they don't have to use it.) Then behind the scenes, human volunteers look up any new tags that no one else has used before and match them with any applicable existing tags, a process … Continue reading Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online | WIRED
