Meet the People Who Make Your World

After ten years of conducting interviews with many of the greatest innovators in modern technology, I'm proud to offer these discussions as no one has ever seen them before. When these talks first appeared in CPU magazine, they had to be sliced down for space. But now, thanks to ebooks, I've been able to go back to the source material and replace the gems and fascinating tangents that were formerly lost. Moreover, most interviewees have generously contributed follow-up discussions.

These people aren't locked in the past. They're still here, still changing the world, and (usually) still giving us glimpses showing that the best is yet to come. I'll share some great passages from the "Architects of Tomorrow" series below. If you like what you see, grab the complete books here:


Good reading, and prepare to be inspired!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on School Cred


WVW: Students cite the Britannica all the time. Will teachers accept the Wikipedia as readily?

Wales: I would say not right now. But that’s our goal. Toward that end, the really fast-paced, high-activity, live-editing model means that you can go write some nonsense in an Xbox article right now and it’ll probably be reverted within five minutes. But it’s a little chaotic at the moment. What we’re working on in the community is how can we put together a review process that will let us identify stable versions of the article, versions where we say, “yeah, this one’s Britannica quality,” and flag that so that we can put out an edition either on CD or to be indicated on the Web site: approved articles that would say, “We’ll stand behind this in the way that Britannica would.” Then we’ll have live updating. It’s just a question of how to sift through things. How do we sift things and find the nuggets of gold and try to encourage more of that? Britannica’s a couple hundred years old, but we’ll catch up soon enough.
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