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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT…
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent…
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz…
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some…
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every…
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are…
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,…
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books…
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers,…
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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…
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A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.
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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
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You can't have a great university without a great library.
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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library…
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There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering…
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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she…
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to…
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,…
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