{"id":911,"date":"2006-05-16T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2006-06-01T00:31:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T04:31:49","slug":"a-now-fragile-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"A Now-Fragile Model *Update*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2006\/05\/the_future_of_b.html\">post yesterday on PSFK (Link)<\/a> referring to an article on the <em>New York Times<\/em> website authored by Kevin Kelly. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/14\/magazine\/14publishing.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\">&#8220;Scan This Book!&#8221; (Link &#8211; registration required)<\/a> and I&#8217;ve not yet had time to read it, but the excerpts on PSFK sounded so much like the kinds of things I&#8217;ve posted here and <a href=\"http:\/\/ishush.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/kirkyan-timesuits-for-books-svens.html\">elsewhere<\/a>  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/3198353\">Woody Evans<\/a>: &#8220;Libraries would become self-aware and ubiquitous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;The future library could itself be a kirkyan of sorts. Perhaps we need a new definition for something that collects together kirkyan physical instantiations and tracks all their activity?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; that I intend to make time soon. I suspect there&#8217;s plenty of overlap (as I mention in PSFK&#8217;s comments).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how far he explores his comment &#8220;the now-fragile model of valuable copies&#8221;? Most people still limit their thoughts to intangibles: text, software, music, movies. Are they ever in for a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>{Update: When I wrote this post, I&#8217;d intended to point out a <a href=\"http:\/\/ishush.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/meta-universal-library.html\">related post over on ISHUSH (Link)<\/a>, but in my haste neglected to do so. It&#8217;s well worth a read.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught a post yesterday on PSFK (Link) referring to an article on the New York Times website authored by Kevin Kelly. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Scan This Book!&#8221; (Link &#8211; registration required) and I&#8217;ve not yet had time to read it, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}