Digital Past

Wikipedia is a newer version of what is now an age-old method of sharing information. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the internet was originally just to share information. Even before the internet existed, the Encylopedia was a form of crowdsourcing.  Experts in their respected fields gather information and work to put them all in a single source for everyday people to use for non-fiction research. This is beneficial because it makes research time cut and we are able to find where they got their information in a timely manner. Not only that but it invokes new ideas and research to be at the forefront of the world’s mind.