It’s a growing interactive website on every subject you can think of, but how eco-conscious and useful has it become so far?
One thing the internet has given us thats truly life-changing is crowdsourcing (and funny cat videos, obviously but for the purposes of this weeks column Ill focus on the crowdsourcing).
Unless youre religious, the collective knowledge of people is the closest thing we have to omniscience at our fingertips. Its also a reminder of the helpfulness of folk Im always amazed and pleased that people bother to answer questions on forums, on anything from How do I resize a photo? to Is it OK to boil headphones? (a real question asked on Yahoo answers, and the responses were more thoughtful than you might imagine).