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the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.” As a tradition ...more

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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

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The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet a...more

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It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and that means there’s money available ...more

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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

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Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

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We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presen...more

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We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon...more