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The Internet As Infinite Library

By The Daily Dish

Feb 26 2011, 3:39 AM ET

Freeman Dyson reviews The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. Gleick's vision of an infinite library:

We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.



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