On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Dennis Claxton
<ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>
> I've mentioned Carlo Ginzburg here now and again. I think the guy is like
> what film people say about Marlon Brando... things were different after he
> showed up.
>
> I've just found this lecture he gave last year in Brazil. If you've got 15
> minutes, it's very much worth it. He talks of Google as a continuation of a
> tradition of marshalling information that dates from bible concordances in
> the middle ages. But he's also a Cassandra reminding us that "Without a
> question, Google is a lifeless machine."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSHNqAbd7E&feature=related
>
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