The New York Times has a article on the impact that digitizing of all of the books ever written will have on society.The link is from SmartMobs.

The article by Kevin Kelly in today’s New York Times Magazine is a masterful explanation of the impact on knowledge that will evolve from the inevitable digitizing of all of the books ever written. And that is just he first half of the article. The second half of this outstanding essay, called Scan This Book!, explains the hurdles and confusions of the copyright chaos now engulfing creative publication. An irony of the article is that it will itself only be a part of the open content it explains for the few days during which it is available without payment to the New York Times Archives.

Somehow, getting from the European Cave Paintings of my earlier posts today does not seem so far fetched and somehow it’s all coming together with the work I saw at ITN program at NYU the other day in Part 1  -   Part II  -  Part III - Part IV  and Part V. Even what I saw of the Munch show last week somehow ties in with the Modern Life of the Soul.

I think we’re coming into a new age of knowledge and we’re just seeing the very beginnings of it.