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Encyclopædia Britannica or, if it is allowed within the scope of this question [http://what-if.xkcd.com/59/]
I'm trying to imagine a word where people would be so much more knowledgeable. I want to believe developing countries would pick themselves up pretty quickly. How many more world problems would be solved almost over night? How close would you come if everyone had a tablet that could search among wikipedia articles in an efficient way?
-Oskar

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'Flatland'-Mengsen.

Encyclopædia Britannica or, if it is allowed within the scope of this question [1] I'm trying to imagine a word where people would be so much more knowledgeable. I want to believe developing countries would pick themselves up pretty quickly. How many more world problems would be solved almost over night? How close would you come if everyone had a tablet that could search among wikipedia articles in an efficient way? -Oskar