There is apparently a change going on with the mediums with which information is presented and constructed. The change is occurring due to the information age, the Internet, and the ways in which information is received and transmitted.
In the past, information was transmitted, stored, collected, etc. via. typewritten paper. Now, computers store the same (more) amount of information as an encyclopedia. Enter, the wiki. Now, not only is information stored in technological form, it is also constructed and updated in real time, by anyone.
While the accessibility of wikis has created a very holistic sense of information, and the ways in which it is received and transmitted, there is still a question of authority versus traditional means such as an encyclopedia.
Most importantly, the changing of the times and the ways of information is bringing about a lot of philosophical detours into the norms of conventional education. More to come…
