A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, August 12, 2018

DIMINISHING THE ECONOMIC VALUE AND QUALITY OF KNOWLEDGE

Franklin Foer, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (New York: Penguin Press, 2017) ("Organizing knowledge is an ancient pursuit. Those who toiled in this field over the centuries--librarians and bookstore owners, scholars and archivists--were trained to go about their work lovingly, almost worshipfully. A professional code implored them to treat their cargo as if the world depended on its safe transit through the generations. Tech companies share none of that concern.They have presided over the collapse of the economic value of knowledge, which has severely weakened newspapers, magazines, and book publishers. By collapsing the value of knowledge, they have diminished the quality of it." Id. at 78.).