Re:Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into s...
by pesmhey on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:40AM
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Could you give an example of looking for knowledge that isn’t in the concensual standard places online, where that search ends up finding nothing?
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Re:Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into s...
by pnathan on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:59AM
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Not a specific thing, no. It tends to be trade knowledge or bits of history & beliefs that were printed, or orally known. I have a certain store of oral history regarding a few 20thC movements that was passed down, for instance. But there are no electronic editions of that information - if you find it on Wikipedia, it'll be filtered, somewhat mangled, and altogether minimal in description.
These days when I want to find obscure knowledge, I purchase books written on the topic by scholars; they concentrate the information very well with good sourcing.