Reading2----HE YUNONG

  Summary of reading material 2

--HE YUNONG (하우농)


1. Summary

The author gives examples of those who pursued the encyclopedia (even though it was wrong or failed.), from the early philologists to the eventual founding of Wikipedia, which has experienced a long time. These different technology-driven cases are all about building a cosmic encyclopedia—that is, Wikipedia—for the production and dissemination of human knowledge.

Wiki belongs to Web 2.0. Web 2.0 includes social networking sites, blogs, video sharing sites, etc. They are all sites where anyone can edit and express their opinions. Therefore, Web 2.0 has created a modern culture, a culture that each of us can participate in and create. Therefore, wikis also have the characteristics of Internet 2.0, allowing everyone to edit wikis, but they must be well-founded remarks, and they cannot publish their own biased remarks like social networking sites.


2. Interesting points

What is interesting is a passage from the example of HG Wells and "world brain" cited by the author: 

Wells felt: “the time is close at hand when a student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in exact replica.”

I think this passage of Wells was a kind of advanced thought at that time. Many people may not agree with it, but he bravely put it forward and put it into practice. Like Wikipedia, it is a clearinghouse of ideas, a repository for sharing and receiving knowledge. 


3. Discussion points

In citing examples of HG Wells and "World Brain", the author mentioned that some people think that HG Wells keeps other people's works at hand as plagiarism, and therefore thinks that he has personality defects; Do you agree with this? Or disagree? What's the reason?

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