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Figure 1. Imagine every book ever written.

The Library of Babel is a metaphor describing how information has become so abundant on the internet, there is sufficient evidence on both sides of any argument to prove or disprove it. This concept comes from a science fiction short story, thought experiment by Jorge Luis Borges called "The Library of Babel":

"Imagine a planet which contains all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The majority of the book would be gibberish, however, like 1,000 monkeys bashing the keys on typewriter for infinity, some books in the library would detail the entire works of Shakespeare and beyond."

The Library is now analogous to the internet as vast reams of content is now being generated on the basis of what gets clicks as opposed to what is factually correct. To navigate this, critical analysis skills are now a necessity to see fact through the quagmire of data.

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-[[File:Library planet.png|alt=Library planet|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. Imagine a every book ever written.]]
+<seo title="The Library of Babel" metakeywords="1,000 monkeys on type writers, infinite knowledge" metadescription="The library of Babel, what if all knowledge that could be created was on the internet?"/>
-'''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.
+[[File:Library planet.png|alt=Library planet|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. Imagine every book ever written.]]
+'''The Library of Babel is a metaphor describing how information has become so abundant on the internet, there is sufficient evidence on both sides of any argument to prove or disprove it.'''  This concept comes from a science fiction short story, thought experiment by Jorge Luis Borges called "''The Library of Babel''":
-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.
+''"Imagine a planet which contains all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The majority of the book would be gibberish, however, like 1,000 monkeys bashing the keys on typewriter for infinity, some books in the library would detail the entire works of Shakespeare and beyond."''
-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 Library is now analogous to the internet as vast reams of content is now being generated on the basis of what gets clicks as opposed to what is factually correct. To navigate this, [[critical analysis]] skills are now a necessity to see fact through the quagmire of data.
-The libarary of babel is a science fiction short story by Borges which describes a planet whi

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