THE INTERNET WAR: Wikipedia? FUTUREpedia!

[We've all heard about the threats the vast series of tubes called The Internet faces on a daily basis. For the most part we don't understand them. After all, isn't 'Neutrality' reserved for those Swiss pansies? In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan and the "X-Files", this segment probes threats to the internet. More importantly we will underline how unstoppable The Internet is in...THE INTERNET WAR!]

Ah, readers, I have stumbled out of bed - still smarting from my post-Canada Day hangover - to steal Matt's segment for a sec while I serve up a juicy piece of news (which, to be fair, is two days old).

The events surrounding the deaths of wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and son were strange enough, but then (insert suspenseful music) the internet got involved.

In particular, the ever-popular, controversial encyclopedia website Wikipedia, where news of his wife Nancy's death surfaced fourteen hours before the bodies were discovered by authorities. The article had been remedied to say that, according to the Globe, "the Canadian wrestler missed a match Saturday night due to 'the death of his wife Nancy.'"

This has sparked yet another brouhaha over Wikipedia, the credibility of its articles and contributors, and its unstoppable power to provide you with filler information on History essays that you have to have done by the next day... ahem.

While they have their little spat, I would like to turn the attention of you intelligent readerfolk to what I can't believe Globe writer Cassandra Szklarski failed to mention (perhaps she was trying to spell her own surname?) - Wikipedia can effectively predict the future.

Alright, so it may be the very near, or shall we say, immediate future, but its the future nonetheless. To all you Wikipedia naysayers, I say...



Lucky for you, this entry isn't real.

...yet.