"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia".
-- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL
Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?
Striving to preserve one copy of everything ever published--- about the Physical Archive...
"A Peek Inside the Physical Archive: Where the Past Finds a Future"
(and for the record, I was saying the public's participation in the web was the ‘phenomenal, fabulous success story’-- 1 trillion web pages shared with the world by 1 billion people)
Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
@npub1umd6...wfr7 show video with tabs to jump around:
A brilliant video (short) from 2004 predicted the rise of algorithms in creating personalized information ‘bubbles’ in a fictional future system called EPIC that, by 2014, has taken over the media landscape. It is worth quoting at length, and I suggest the 9 minutes:
Texas school district closed Jr and High School libraries to students so it can review and ban books. (based on new Texas Senate Bill 13. AI summary:
This bill aims to give parents more control over the books and materials their children can check out or access in school libraries. )
