Here's a great example of how technology has changed our behavior, and how

" People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways in years past"

The sad but true ending to Encarta, the encyclopedia Microsoft introduced in 1993

In Randall Stross' digital domain column on the NYT, " Encyclopedia Knowledge, Then vs. Now", he provided the history of the start of Microsoft's encyclopedia, and how it was unable to compete with Google-indexed Web form of virtual encyclopedia.

Nowadays, who pays for information, when you can get it for free?