Their are some really good web applications out there, but in my life their still are some paper publishications that I have that no web app comes close to replacing.  Some of these are the AMC River Guide and the Delorme A&G.  The amount of detail, both in map data and text is far better than those found online.  With the case of the AMC River Guide, the trips that are detailed were actually taken by the authors.

This got me thinking about a larger scale issue.  In this era of “web 2.0″ and wiki’s and blogs, what will happen to detailed research.  Anyone who has ever done any large research knows that wikipedia may be looked at, but is not a great source of in-depth information.  Any information that may actually be there, is really a citation from something else anyway.

I just wonder what will happen to high quanlity content, that needs to be funded.