Myth of the universal digital library
No, you can’t digitize everything. No, you won’t ever have access to an electronic library that contains the sum of human knowledge. And yes, that means we will always need physical libraries, museums and warehouses to hold our history. Read my latest column for three reasons why we must crush the myth of the universal digital library to save our future.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:21 am
I do wonder if there’s some industrial-style way we can do that. Mass-print the contents of the Internet onto acid-free paper or something.