Of the Seventy Online Databases that "Define Our Planet", Many are Known Only to Specialists

As part of a description of a potential costly (1 billion euros) European scheme to simulate the entire planet earth, MIT's Technology Review published an article listing and describing the "The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet." These databases covered climate, health, finance, economics, traffic, and other topics. Only a few, such as the Wikipedia, Google Earth, the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, and Wolfram Alpha, were widely known to generalists, such as, yours truly, the author of HistoryofInformation.com.