"The problem with wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work."

You get a lot of flack if you talk down about the majority of people in this world...Michael Gorman. Most of us don't like hearing that what we participate in is something that will not only make us less intelligent, but will cause us to produce children that are more or less doomed to be as moronic as we are becoming. The interactivity of what could be classified as web 2.0 leads to alot of inaccuracies, misinformation, and potentially harmful claims. The web is designed and programmed by human beings. Websites have been up and running with either all facts, mostly facts, or complete lies ever since the world wide web was available. The new TREND (subtle emphasis), that is not necessarily going to go away, is for there to be websites that include their viewers, i.e. wikipedia, as much as possible. Yes there is information that starts out incorrect, yes this will mislead many people, yes this is a problem that would more or less never happen if there was no wikipedia or internet for that matter, but no this should not be a reason to

a) believe that there will be a race of ape-people punching computers that make their heads hurt in the next few generations or

b) that wikipedia should be stopped and we should all be confined to classrooms, lecture halls, and libraries for all of our lives if we wish to learn something in them.

We are people. We are imperfect. We should be interacting with as many other people as we can so that great good can come of it. However, I understand there will always be evil, but libraries, mentors, gurus, and all the wonderful intentions in the world cannot stop it from hurting the many victims that evil will find.