A internet - a nova (e melhor) biblioteca de Alexandria

Stephen W. Carson explica:
"... We have it in our grasp to realize the original mission of the Library of Alexandria, "collecting all the world's knowledge", but with significant improvements on the original plan:

• Multiple, redundant, perfect copies.
• Copies in multiple physical locations, (to avoid the problem of, say, one central location being burned down and losing the whole collection).
• Storage of not only texts, but images, audio recordings (music, spoken word, etc.), and video.
• The ability to search all of this knowledge comprehensively yet instantly that the librarians of Alexandria could not even have imagined (but would have loved!)
• The ability to interconnect between all these texts and other media so that connections between them can be made explicit and easily navigable.
• Access to all this from almost anywhere in the world, rather than scholars having to travel to a single location in Egypt.
• Participation by all scholars (or anyone with something to share) from all over the world, rather than a relatively small group of scholars funded by a single government.
• And all of this based on a voluntary process of sharing. No breaking in and stealing originals from anyone. If anyone wants to keep something to themselves they simply refrain from sharing it and this great project will leave them in peace.

Before we consider the threats to this new "Library of Alexandria" that we call the Internet, let's pause for a moment and consider the historically unprecedented opportunity that lays before us...
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