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Dreams of the Universal Library
Library of Babel
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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.
Sane • EP.14 Andrew Hui on aphorisms and the universal library by Reverb by Sane
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The internet is no omniscient library, but the parallels between Borges’ story are apparent. The web is a boundless compendium of information and data scattered across billions of pages—content, as we’ve loathed to call it. In this virtual information library, Google may be the closest thing we have to a librarian.
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
Like Borges’s library, we are tasked with sifting through the internet’s “divine disorder” to find what is worthy of our attention. The question, now, is how to sculpt a better Library of Babel – a better information infrastructure – that lends itself to the advancement of knowledge and wisdom conducive to human flourishing.
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The Library
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Borges reminds us that Schopenhauer asserted that life and dreams are pages from the same book. To read them in proper order is to live, but to browse among them is to dream.
James Gleick • Time Travel
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Third, the universal networked library of all books will cultivate a new sense of authority. If you can truly incorporate all texts—past and present in all languages—on a particular subject, then you can have a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do and don’t know. The empty white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighte
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