Friday, July 25, 2008

Perhaps I was a bit too hasty

It appears that libraries will endure - even when Earth is evacuated due to some vaguely malicious but not really dangerous alien threat:



Give this video a minute - the quality is really bad at the start.

So, aside from the valuable lessons learned about the nature of library organization and the Dewey Decimal System, what have we learned? We've learned that libraries preserve the information generated by humanity, and that will never change, even if no one bothers to read it.

But, you know, we shouldn't worry, the Internet will last forever.

Right?

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