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Originally Posted by neverending
When I was young one of the big concepts in science fiction was "the universal library" - a repository of ALL of humankind's knowledge, arts and thought. It would be accessable by everyone and would bring about a great renaissance.
With the internet, we're getting close- you still can't find EVERYTHING on the internet and of course it's only available to those who can afford it. We're getting closer, though.
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even better than just the internet, Wikipedia is making the universal library concept a reality. they are literally trying to catalogue and quantify everything.