Wiki-need-ia!

Just as every great artist in history has needed to seek inspiration to hone their works of wonder, behind every great student essay the same approach is deemed effective. Where does this inspiration come from you ask? WIKIPEDIA! Or Wickedpedia, as I so commonly like to call it. I can pretty much guarantee that every student has used this little beauty in at least 1 of their essays, the thing is an absolute godsend. So when I go to write a very long-winded politics essay this morning and am in need of a little light of hope, I go to Google, search bar, Wiki- yes, it knows where i'm going, couple of clicks, ' hello wiki -' ahh! Where has wikipedia gone! My already whimpering motivational flame was completely wiped out by a wikipedia blackout. Literally. Instead of the usual tsunami of words I see on a wikipedia screen, I was merely greeted by the words. 'Imagine a world without free knowledge.' Was this some kind of sick joke? No. To get all technical on your arses, apparently the US congress is considering legislation that could damage the free and open internet. Now, that's a sick joke. 

And then it got me thinking, what would we do without having anything we wanted to know being just a click away? I know for a fact that I take the internet for granted with the words, 'Just Google it.' constantly rolling off of my tongue. But unlike many superfluous technological or social advances, the infinite knowledge that the internet brings is not one of them. The virtual realm has fast become a sort of 'world common room' if you will, where people can swap and share information of any kind and this is one thing that we should indeed be promoting not restraining. It's like that little pill Bradley Cooper takes in Limitless, except the information we can access is online and from the brains of the world as oppose to just Cooper's brain, although I don't doubt what a beautiful brain that is if his face is anything to go by.