In that last essay, a particular highlight of the collection, Baker romps his way through Wikipedia past and present, describing how this miraculous place?where ?in a few seconds you can look up, for instance, ?Diogenes of Sinope,? or ?turnip? ??was magicked out of nothing. In Baker?s telling, Wikipedia started out as a kind of techno-utopia where ?the self-taught and the expensively educated,? ?the cranks,? and ?the mainstreamers? converged with an ?exhilarating sense of mission? to build the most comprehensive encyclopedia in history?a gift to the world, free of banner ads, hyperactive popups and all the other money-hungry pests native to the net.
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