16 May 2006

Life hack: Carrying an electronic encyclopedia

Since we depend on using the internet to look up references, many have foreseen a future where we carry around Wikipedia, etc. on small flash or hard drive and take it with us when we don't have internet access (or if it's expensive).

In fact, one physicist has already downloaded the contents of hep-th from the arXiV and made it available as an 8 GB file.

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