{"id":1964,"date":"2012-03-06T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2012-03-06T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T23:08:09","slug":"the-missing-aristotle-the-preserved-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/06\/the-missing-aristotle-the-preserved-pulp-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing Aristotle, the preserved pulp fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This 1st century inscription contains a reference to the Alexandrina Bybliothece.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

First, he backed up every bit of internet data…anywhere, ever. Then, he decided the world needed to save a copy of every book (the old-fashioned kind). Brewster Kahle is a 21st century Ptolemy:<\/div>\n
” ‘We want to collect one copy of every book,’ said Brewster Kahle, who has spent $3 million to buy and operate this repository situated just north of San Francisco. ‘You can never tell what is going to paint the portrait of a culture.’<\/div>\n
As society embraces all forms of digital entertainment, this latter-day Noah is looking the other way. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur who made his fortune selling a data-mining company to Amazon.com in 1999, Mr. Kahle founded and runs the Internet Archive<\/a>, a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving Web pages \u2014 150 billion so far \u2014 and making texts more widely available.<\/div>\n
But even though he started his archiving in the digital realm, he now wants to save physical texts, too.”<\/div>\n
Here’s the link<\/a> to the full NY Times article.<\/div>\n
I love the Herculean quality to Kahle’s undertaking. Okay, here’s the question: what books (up to 10 titles) would you want with you on a desert island…or preserved for generations to come?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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