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Orignally written in January 2021
Inspired by a podcast about "2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything" by Mauro Guillén I decided it was time to put into writing my thoughts about the end of Wikipedia. I'm calling it the Death of Wikipedia but in reality it's more like "How Wikipedia loses its place as the preeminent English Language Encyclopedia". However Death of Wikipedia is a bit more clickbaity so here we are. I present 3 scenarios from what I consider the most likely to the least likely.