The Alexandrine Dilemma | the human network - 0 views
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When the folks at Britannica conducted a forensic analysis of the failure, they learned something shocking: the site had crashed because, within its first hours, it had attracted nearly fifty million visitors.
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Wikipedia was the modern birth of “crowdsourcing”, the idea that vast numbers of anonymous individuals can labor together (at a distance) on a common project.
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this new library – at least seven million volumes – has become available everywhere. The library has become coextensive with the Internet.
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What does this mean for the library as we have known it? Has Google suddenly obsolesced the idea of a library as a building stuffed with books?
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In fact, because the library is universal, library science now needs to be a universal skill set, more broadly taught than at any time previous to this.
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In order to have a connection to our data selves of the past, we are all going to need to become library scientists.