All the Knowledge in the World

I so appreciate the effort, and it is a well-developed topic -in a way that is anything but obvious.
It talks a lot, a lot about “Britannica,” but what was the alternative? An encyclopedia about the encyclopedia? No!
It was inevitable that it would focus on one particular aspect, since Britannica is considered the first modern encyclopedia. But there is no shortage of room for ‘competition' from other countries, for the market, and for the evolution of the whole system, from notionalism to Wikipedia, from the glory of a few researchers working slowly, to the encyclopedia for all and by all, instantaneous -every chapter, a letter of the alphabet.