In the very near future most of us will be carrying around an electronic device that we will use to read books and magazines, listen to music, surf the Internet, pay bills online and a multitude of other things. Even pastors and Sunday school teachers will be using them as a reference for their notes, and people in the pews will be using them to read their Bibles and take notes on the message. [Read More]
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Wikipedia often comes up near the top when you do a Google topic search. It is used by millions of people as a research tool, but is it a reliable source of information? Increasingly, Wikipedia is coming under scrutiny for providing biased and inaccurate information. There are three main issues:
1. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, conceived a notion of ”Neutral Point of View” (NPOV) for Wikipedia submissions, but it is extremely easy to find bias in articles. If people attempt to offer documented differing views, they are often quickly deleted by topic editors or others. The “consensus” about what to include at Wikipedia is created only by those who frequent the site, not a cross-section of people. It is estimated that only 615 people edit 50% of the articles, so it is not the universal pool of knowledge that many people think it is. [Read More]
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