Today, I was blown away by E O Wilson's wish at the very popular TED conference to create the Encyclopedia of life. The demonstrations and screen shots look amazing and the idea of cataloging the 1.8 million species on earth is mind blowing thought. The site, eol.org, will be backed by 50 million from various scientific organizations and I imagine some day it will be as well known as Wikipedia. I look forward to seeing the project evlolving and hopefully being able to participate at some level.
This actually brought up an interesting discussion I was having with a co-worker about doing something similar with the history of the world. Essentially building a virtual globe that becomes a catalog of human history and being able to go to any point in time and read about human events. I think it would be a fascinating project not to mention the differences you would run into regarding how people view historical events.
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