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Encyclopaedia Britannica to end print edition
Chicago Tribune ^ | March 13, 2012 | Robert Channick

Posted on 03/13/2012 4:48:39 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: BobL

Bob, you mean well, but in the event of a nuke or emp event, I doubt you’ll be worrying that you can’t access an electronic encyclopedia, or comforted that you can still read the print edition


41 posted on 03/13/2012 9:09:03 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: Melas

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42 posted on 03/13/2012 9:43:49 PM PDT by Publius6961 (“It’s easy to make phony promises you can’t keep.” - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: Melas

“Bob, you mean well, but in the event of a nuke or emp event, I doubt you’ll be worrying that you can’t access an electronic encyclopedia, or comforted that you can still read the print edition”

It depends. You may think that the world disappears with an EMP event, but it doesn’t. Short of a major nuke exchange between us, Russia, and/or China, life will go on and we (hopefully) will build out of it. But things will be much, much, different. Yes we will have computers again, but they will be hardened, and we will have paper backups for everything, including text books and encyclopedias.

Anyway, we’ll likely find out well before the end of the decade.


43 posted on 03/14/2012 4:36:35 AM PDT by BobL (I don't care about his past - Santorum will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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To: docnakona

That is my hope also. We had a set of World Book growing up, and I, like you, remember many things out of those pages that most people do not know or learned in school. Even today, I come up with trivia and folks ask me, “How do you know this?” and I know it’s from perusing the encyclopedia throughout my childhood.

I’ve tried using an online or CD encyclopedia, but it’s not the same at all.

We yard sale a lot and we go to book sales, I’ll have to see if I can find a good set before they are gone forever.

Very happy to see that you are passing along to your children the love of the encyclopedia and their worth.


44 posted on 03/14/2012 9:27:11 AM PDT by eagles_rest (The truth will set you free. Amen)
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And the “Technology Trap” closes in a little bit more.


45 posted on 03/14/2012 9:30:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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Yes, it does. Information will be much easier to manipulate and history can be changed as it is on sites like Wikipedia every day. Big Brother anyone?


46 posted on 03/14/2012 11:11:02 AM PDT by eagles_rest (The truth will set you free. Amen)
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