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[ NNSquad ] Re: Here We Go Again....Reportedly to Sue Over Google Books
----- Forwarded message from Mike Spencer <mspencer@tallships.ca> -----
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:16:12 -0300
From: Mike Spencer <mspencer@tallships.ca>
Subject: Here We Go Again....Reportedly to Sue Over Google Books
> How much better for everyone if these wonderful books could also be
> accessed by the world.
Well, I dunno. Once they're digital, they're ephemeral, mutable. If
they can be accessed from a bedroom in Springfield or a bunker in the
Pyranees, they can be edited or destroyed from those locations.
And once they're freely on-line, efficiency-minded MBAs everywhere
will demand that the costs of housing the *real* books be
eliminated. (You didn't happen to see the familiar ranks of card
catalogs at UCLA, did you?)
In the new economic order, digital is for peons and the Great
Unwashed. Analog if for the elite. So if you want to repeat your
trip down memory lane when you're old, you better get ready to buy up
whole libraries as they're digitized and the obsolete hardcopies
"externalized" to wealthy fanatics or the pulper.
FWIW,
- Mike
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