As a popular online encyclopedic resource, Wikipedia is the undisputed king. As previously outlined here at The Next Web, Wikipedia has honed its content crafting processes down to a fine art, with individual editors creating and modifying articles with surprising immediacy. Wikipedia presents as a dynamic project full of ambitious contributors who seem dedicated to imparting unbiased, balanced content for the general consumption of like-minded individuals. These readers are likewise keen to avidly absorb the carefully constructed information provided by such genuine writers…

…or so the Wikimedia Foundation (the puppeteers overseers of Wikipedia) would want us to believe. Let’s reach past the Wikipedia PR hype and take an investigative trip down the dark innards of the Wikipedia Machine, including editing scandals and vandalism hiccups that would make Dark Vader blush.

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Good post thanks. Information is like currency, trying to get you to buy and wind up in debt.

I have no doubt that information sources will be centralized and then required to be used to function.
Mimicking the immune system addiction with vaccines.

Its a form of transhumanism...

The lesson is that no information source should be taken as gospel, not even the Gospel. Information is power, and power corrupts. That's an oversimplification, of course, which applies more to the sociopathic personality types and less to empathetic people of strong moral integrity.