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The web is killing the printed encyclopedia
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Ars Technica reports, “This AP article is trying to sum up the effects of the Internet on that good bastion of knowledge, the encyclopedia. The general point of the article is pretty simple: people are turning away from printed encyclopedias and turning to the Internet for reference knowledge, both in homes and at the library. The tone of the article is one of progress: see, it says, “it’s almost like forcing students to use slide rules when they know calculators can do the job faster.”"