please see wikipedia neutral point of view this huge article recently underwent drastic revisions to cut down its length so that it is accessible to as large an audience as possible wikipedia is an international project the inevitable result is that its treatment of any particular topic will be light bland and superficial but that's because as a compromise we've shifted all the treatment of all the complicated issues into subarticles for example as a expert on the history of technology i would prefer more treatment of that topic in this article but i also concede that history of technology is a rather dry subject for most people and therefore i'm satisfied with the brief mention and links it gets everyone had to give a little to make the current readable version possible the earlier versions check the history a couple of years ago were really bloated