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The Problems That Google Docs Never Solved


It's Easier to Debate Than to Collate

And this disconnection between conversations and documents turns out to help explain why it’s so hard to find good information about fast-moving topics like AI. The community of Wikipedia contributors and moderators are effectively functioning as a distributed project hero, collecting information from all across the Internet (and beyond) and carefully organizing it for easy consumption. Thanks to James Cham for pointing out the connection between Writely / Google Docs and the problem of productive discussion, and to Roy Bahat for contributing ideas.

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