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Time Machine future of the library

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
A time traveler returns to a library information system to find out what happened 800,000 years in the future

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In this ironic reversal of conventional wisdom about information storage and retrieval systems, an electronic information system far outlasts its physical library counterpart 800,000 years in the future. The full contents of the library are fortunately stored in the memory of a librarian avatar who laments his prodigious memory, echoing Borges' Funes the Memorius, "Can you even imagine what it's like to remember everything?"


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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2010, May 20). Time Machine future of the library. Retrieved May 22, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/time-machine-future-of-the-library. This work is licensed under a No Copyright; No Rights Reserved.