April 2001
Information Cosmos
Seeking order amid informational chaos? Learn some lessons from the ancient Library of Alexandria.
By Henry Jenkins
The classical world offers a legendary story about enlightenment through assembled knowledge-the great Library at Alexandria-that embodies both our hopes and our anxieties for the digital age. Will innovation and free inquiry thrive amid the Web's great storehouses of knowledge? Or will an information elite monopolize access to knowledge and grow increasingly isolated from the public?
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