The digital librarian
hopes to preserve knowledge and spread it to others. “For me -- for pretty much
every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity (thanks to Tim
O'Reilly for this great aphorism). Of all the people who failed to buy this
book today, the majority did so because they never heard of it, not because
someone gave them a free copy.” (Doctorow Introduction Little Brother)
Doctorow here states that every writer fears obscurity and that success
or failure isn’t a measure on people giving away stuff but about
knowledge
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| Botherhood Of Steel by Sauron94 | (The text on the image comes from the tenets of Kopimism a religion in a similar vain to that of the satirical Pastafarianism.)The logo on the image is the logo of the Brotherhood of Steel a fictional group in the world of "Fallout". They gather old world technology in the post Apocalypse and also have scribes that scavenge for Pre apocalypse books and information. In order to keep it safe and preserved.") |
Doctorow’s statement
here about writers also applies to other
producers and consumers of content everyone’s biggest fear is obscurity. The
digital librarian as the informed user/producer tries to prevent this by
sharing and re-purposing content. The digital librarian is much like one of
those elder wanders in bad post-apocalyptic SC-FI guarding and sharing
cultural knowledge as well as finding new purposes for it.
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