I wonder who decides which texts to share and which to keep private, and why? Conspiracy theorists could have a field day, pondering over alleged plots to retain the world's Really Big Secrets for a small elite.
Personally, I've found the best place to hide something is in plain sight.
Thinking back to my time as a library assistant in the Religion and Philosophy Library, at Liverpool's Central Library, I can easily remember the thousands upon thousands of books stored away in the stacks. Wouldn't it be great if each and every one of those - and all those like them, stashed away in libraries all over the world - were available in digital form for absolutely everyone to read? It is theoretically possible, though it would be a huge task.
Is there a gadget which can scan whole pages into a digital book format of some kind? This way, the text wouldn't have to be re-typed. A person would have to be able to read Latin, Greek or Hebrew though (or whichever old language a text happened to be in), - or else rely on those dodgy online translators which tend to be hit-and-miss.
Today, we have ready access to more information than at any time in recorded history. How we use that, and how we develop that, will be interesting to observe.
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