The History of the Encyclopedia: Pliny and Diderot to Voyager One and Wikipedia

In this video, I look at the history of the encyclopedia and the biases that have underwritten the writings over time. Pliny the Elder is widely considered as the first encyclopedist, but the first modern encyclopedia was produced by Denis Diderot in the Eighteenth Century. We can see the links between these great old encyclopedias of knowledge and the displacement of the Encyclopedia Britannica by Wikipedia, and the new questions that have arisen out of the digitization of information in the information age. I also take a look at Voyager One and the contents of this interstellar encyclopedia.
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Very good video. I enjoyed it very much. Could you say a little about Pears Cyclopaedia?

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Finally at last, secular & concrete factual Honesty. . . Wonderful ‘about time ‘ * !

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Why you didn’t site Hayek on the video? He's of extreme importance to understand Wikipedia, what a shame.

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Meaning of English word encyclopedia

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