The end of the print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is not a cause for celebration. Print is for us the graven tablets of Cleopatra's day... there is now no path forward for preservation of information in its original form, or with referenced, printed, addenda.
Without the archive of print - depending only on digital bits and bytes of time - information is transient. Information is corruptible. History is rewritten by those who seek credibility through revisionism.
There should always - always - be a yardstick for facts - just as there is a tangible measure of time, a measure of distance, a measure of weight. A factual reference point will help us not become a nation mired in mysticism, falsely citing misinformation as referents for our actions.
Save the future; save the past.