Frank Kogan

Wasn't clear why I "don't care" -- what I mean is that, given the scattered state of pop knowledge, I don't think it's reasonable to expect a centralized location for recording it, and if there were a centralized location I think it's way too late for it to be Wikipedia. It would probably have to start from the ground up, and that particular online moment -- the idea that everything might be collected in one space that includes the messiness of everything -- has likely passed. I just get the feeling that most people don't think about the internet this way anymore. (Back when enough people knew little enough about the internet, shows could pretend that EVERYTHING was consolidated in one space -- in a given techno-utopian show, someone might find driving records, hospital admittances, and daily lists of high school absences in about four seconds. I'm thinking in part of Willow's early role in Buffy specifically.)