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Time Machine library destruction

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from The Time Machine (2002)
Created by Simon Wells
Distributed by Warner Brothers
Posted byCritical Commons Manager

800,000 years in the future, books will have turned to dust, but a digital information system continues to function

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Time Machine future of the library

by Critical Commons Manager

A time traveler returns to a library information system to find out what happened 800,000 years in the future

In this ironic reversal of conventional wisdom about information storage and retrieval systems, an electronic information system far outlasts its physical library counterpart 800,000 years in the future. The full contents of the library are fortunately stored in the memory of a librarian avatar who laments his prodigious memory, echoing Borges' Funes the Memorius, "Can you even imagine what it's like to remember everything?"

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