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   David Nash (dpnash@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 11:47:31 JST David Nash

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   • Shaula Evans

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   1995: Cool, the latest print encyclopedia is out.
   2005: Nobody prints encyclopedias anymore because they think Wikipedia and the web in general made them obsolete.
   2015: What’s a “print” encyclopedia? Something like those legendary “paper maps” of yore?
   2025: Oh. Right. It’s one of those things that might still be useful for finding basic introductory information that was well-understood in 1985 or 1995 or even 2005 because it was never contaminated with AI sploodge.

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     Shaula Evans (shaulaevans@zirk.us)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 11:47:32 JST Shaula Evans

     I wonder if the AI-led destruction of the internet is going to lead to a renaissance for encyclopedias and reference books in general.

     If I could A) leave the house, and B) had the budget, I would be trawling second hand stores or all kinds of reference books about now -- in particular, books published before 2023.