Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They... See more

A Reverb episode about aphorisms and the ideas presented in the essay titled Dreams of the Universal Library: https://www.academia.edu/72782889/Dreams_of_the_Universal_Library.