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Our Group's arguement (VB)

Our group goes with the Britannica. And we choose Britannica for basically two reasons: accuracy and user-friendly. We have our arguments as follows.
Firstly, if only one encyclopedia can be left for human beings, it has the responsibility of the continuity of knowledge. Our offspring will have to depend on it to study, to explore, so the accuracy is very important, because we don’t want to mislead them. And Britannica is more accurate than Wikipedia. Quoted from Hioberg (senior vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. ) ‘Britannica has published more than a hundred Nobel Prize winners and thousands of other well-known experts and scholars. Contrary to Wikipedia, Britannica's contributor base is transparent and not anonymous.’ This is the main reason for our choices.
Secondly, we found that Britannica is more user-friendly than Wikipedia. Here are the homepages of these two encyclopedia.
1. Britannica

2. Wikipedia

We can judge from the pictures above that although Wikipedia has a lot of information, but it is too messy, because the page is not so well-organized. As for Britannica, we have clear categories, we have dictionary and news, we also list some articles like news for today. It’s easier for us to find useful information from this well-organized page. And we searched for ‘Plato’ as a test. The result just as follows.
3. wikipedia

http://www.britannica.com/bps/search?query=Plato Britannica

Wikipedia simply pumped out a page talking about who Plato is and his theories and life and so on. It did give out great lists of footnotes, references and extensional readings. But Britannica did even better. It listed all the result on the page, and when you put your mouse on each of them there would be a brief introduction of the resources so that you can choose what to read more specifically and easily. And you can choose to read Ebook or magazine or dictionary.
As we discussed above, Britannica has obvious advantage over Wikipedia in accuracy and user-friendly. So we absolutely support Britannica to be the only encyclopedia in the world.

Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia?

Brittannica should be a good choice to me. Although Wikipedia and Brittannica have a lots of sources for us to find out and most of it is useful for us, Wikipedia's sources may not completely correct. It is because Wikipedia's information can be edited by anyone even your younger brother. Therefore, the information which found from Wikipedia may not reliable.

Although I said that Brittannica is better choice, I won't say that Brittannica's information must be completely correct and reliable. We know that Brittannica only can be changed by the owner. In order to make the source more reliable, the editor should find more evidence and basis to prove whether the information is proper or not. Therefore,the information should be more neutral.

But I don't think information only can be edited by a person, as some controvertsial information should be combined by both positive and negative opinion. Some people may say that Wikipedia can be combine more different voice from people as Wikipedia can be changed by everyone. I may be true. But I wonder those opinions is true or it's a joke? As Brittannica have more reliable evidences, hence I would trust the information from Brittannica more.

Modern Times

To me, I can not find any benefits on him in the clip. Sometimes the new technologies can help us a lots, but its also can make some negative effect on us. In the clip, Chaplin was affected by those machine and he seems got crazy. In the beginning, when he want to take a rest, he continues to do the same working posture. He seems got an occupational disease even he may get mental disorder. Also, when I watched on the feeding machine, I think it is a stupied design. The feeding machine seems to design a model answer of eating habit. The machine can't control our eating habit. It's not all people will drink soup first, then eat the main course.

When I use the common digital technologies, I also experience some similar experiences. On the computer, we must know how to type words and we can say we used to type words. When I write with paper and pen, I will forget how to write the word suddenly. I also used to open the computer every morning when I wake up, it already become my habit and seems a regular action for me. It may similar to Chaplin in the clip. Chaplin used to keep on the working posture.

Nevertheless, I won't like as Chaplin. Chaplin is forced by his employer as he must work for life. However, I don't forced by anyone, I can decide to use the computer or not. I also have another things to do, such as hanging out with friends. I won't stay with the computer for a long time, it must make me crazy. It is too tired!