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Veni, vidi, wiki
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Veni, vidi, vici! (I came, I saw, I conquered), Julius Caesar's memorable soundbite from the Battle of Zela in 47 BC, has been for nearly two millennia a byword for the triumph of the new order over the old. Substitute the homophone wiki for vici and the symbolism remains apt. While the rise of the personal computer, the development of the internet and the advent of mobile telephony have each been hailed as the greatest transformative feature