AN “INFORMATION MAP OF THE WORLD”

New online encyclopedias turn to users as contributors, hoping to create real-time maps of all of current human knowledge. One site has 60,000 contributors from 90 countries. “These sites appear at a time in the Internet’s history when its utopian ideals linger as tenuously as the fun money investors doled out over the past two years.” – The Standard 11/20/00