http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/encarta The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/microsoft-shutters-encarta-douglas-adams-encyclopedia-model-wins <!--paging_filter--><p> Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become increasingly technologically irrelevant--in a wonderful parallel to a theory on encyclopedias crafted by sci-fi master Douglas Adams. </p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/microsoft-shutters-encarta-douglas-adams-encyclopedia-model-wins">read more</a></p> Encarta microsoft wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica Douglas Adams H2G2 bbc Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide web-based crowd-sourced Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:57:24 -0400 Kit Eaton 1251669 at http://www.fastcompany.com