The Tristrapaedia

My dad’s big in Information Science—libraries and software and all sorts of things. He’d been building up this on-line encyclopaedia for me for years—called it The Tristrapaedia. He called it a collaborative, non-authoritarian, non-academic source of information. It’s wisdom, he said, not knowledge. He wants to store all the world’s wisdom going back thousands of years from all cultures—all kinds of wisdom given equal space, nobody better than anyone else. It’s like what Ms Hart’s been saying about the blog—how everybody gets a say so it’s free and democratic.