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erikpukinskis on Feb 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartpho...

Why only Western Civilization? Why not the collected knowledge of all of humanity?

com2kid on Feb 1, 2019 [–]

Wikipedia has a Western bias.

Linguistic barriers prevent lots of information from East Asia from being accessible to westeners.

Large portions of the world don't yet have super organized repositories of knowledge.

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