Library of Babel

Figure 1. Imagine a every book ever written.

The internet has changed how information is consumed. Historically, information has always been sparse, but as the saying goes knowledge is power. This dynamic, by evolutionary psychology has programmed us with an innate almost insatiable human hunger for information.

The internet changed this as anyone can start a blog, put up information as spread it. However, once the internet became so ubiquitous information moved from being a scarce commodity to an abundant one. There is a deluge of information from a variety of source some with good intention and some bad with bad.

For a content provider this has now lead to instead of making what feels good, an expression of ones self, because there is so much competition it has moved to creating something true or false that someone would read.

The libarary of babel is a science fiction short story by Borges which describes a planet whi