The Age of Digital Information
Digital encyclopedias, such as Wikipidia, have several strong points. One is the ability to find information quickly and to link to further details. A user can easily click on a word and jump to define it or seek facts about a similar field. However, perphaps the greatest feature of outline information is that most of it is free. This explains Wikipidia’s growth: a 2010 survey found that 69 percent of US college students used it.