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by thanhhaimai 1862 days ago
Record disks broke the distribution of taverns and pubs.

Radio broke the distribution model of record disks.

YouTube broke the distribution model of old content producers.

People still make music and more content than ever before. People are not gonna suddenly stop generating knowledge because of Wikipedia. The prediction that "there won't be any new content" is hyperbolic and just plain wrong as demonstrated by history.

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The previous examples disrupted content distributors. An advanced q&a system disrupts content creators.
When the content people create is pushed aside and instead used by a giant corp. without any payment, it is safe to assume that people will stop writing content.