February 29, 2024

Changes

Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book used to not change

you could go back and find the same fact you found years ago

Wikipedia and the Internet are not like that, not at all like that

you couldn't go back tomorrow to re-find today's found fact

much less re-find a fact you'd thought you'd found years ago

which is good, because we are not who we were years ago

which is also bad, because we have lost our solid place to stand