From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 22:56:57 MST
I just checked the local library and noticed World Book encyclopedia 2001 has a "nanotechnology" entry of reasonable length, I couldn't find a direct entry in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Micro or Macro 2002.
For many years I've wished there could be a true internet encyclopedia along the lines of the Brittanica, but with each entry have a summary version, a short version, a middling version and a version as long as they felt like, even perhaps a "tree" beyond that consisting of references and alternative reading (with or without current website locals for key texts or sites). The key would be having a respectable academic board to handle the oversight and article entries to be handled in the same way as the Brittanica, with the exception of the issue of space being dropped. Such an encyclopedia could have an index you could browse through alphabetically as well as the normal go-to mark ups. Such an enclopedia would be more than an ersatz mini-Google. Maybe there is such a thing but I haven't found it.
Towards Ascension
Avatar Polymorph
34 After Armstrong
In Celebration of the Techno-Rapture
www.paradigm4.com.au/way
Maximum choice and minimum non-consensual force
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Star A Star
Alpha Null
Radiant Era
Neon Orthogenesis
Axiom Flux
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