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The major encyclopedia of the 18th century was the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768), which has the longest history of any current encyclopedia. The New Grolier Multimedia encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Britannica
And other failures of technocrats
Curtiss Wright
Addressograph Multigraph
Memeograph
Denver Airport
Royal Typewriter.
Smith Corona
I try to stress to my staff the ethics and responsibility of being the technocrats in a corporation. ...
The news release that Encyclopedia Britannica was being sold to a Swiss banker whos father was one of the richest men in the world was another opportunity for me to talk to my technocrats about other technocrats. My grasp of the situation was that Encyclopedia Britannica was owned by the University of Chicago in trust. ... The details were that the management at Encyclopedia Britannica had decided that CD-ROM and Internet access were not important to Encyclopedia Britannicas future.
Approximate Word count = 657
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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