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- Dominic Serventy on The Emu War














- Carl Sagan  – Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space















Economist and social critic, John Kenneth Galbraith, in his book The New Industrial State, (London: Deutsch, 1967.) notes:
" .. the incalculably dire effect of advertising on the truthfulness of modern society, to the point where we no longer notice how routinely dishonest we are."










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" the problem with wikipedia is that it works in practice, but not in theory." [2]
But, that theory was probably only argued within the environment of covetousness and mercantility, and did not anticipate the gravity of the digital information revolution and its high-velocity consequences on the human communion of truth, beauty and goodness,
... allowing the simple algorithm, Wikipedia, to become,
" the most important intellectual phenomenon of the early 21st century." [3]








Speaking of Wikipedia:









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References

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  1. ^ A New Opium - The Anzac cult - Don Watson - The Monthly - The Nation Reviewed - June 2012 - Retrieved 16 Oct 2012.
  2. ^ - By geekoid - Slashdot - (10 March 2006) - Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  3. ^ Gregory Crane, editor in chief of the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University, quoted in Wikipedia in the Newsroom, Part 2: Putting It to the Test. 2 March 2008, Donna Shaw, American Journalism Review