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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the potential of accumulating society's knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I completely agree about supporting Wikipedia. I actually do donate to Wikipedia via subscription and recommend others do as well. Being able to just download Wikipedia is also just such a boon. That being said, Wikipedia is just that, a pedia, like an encyclopedia. It's static knowledge. It can't rephrase things or simplify them or provide more context than it already has. A phonebook to a phonecall.

I would love to see a breakthrough in energy solutions for high-processing, but I doubt I will in my lifetime, and am pessimistic about such advances even being possible.