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Farewell to the Information Age

@inproceedings{Nunberg2010FarewellTT,
  title={Farewell to the Information Age},
  author={Geoff Nunberg},
  year={2010}
}
Paper is just an object that [some] information has been sprayed onto in the past... — Ted Nelson So far we have placed all of our intellectual protection on the containers and not on the contents. And one of the side effects of digital technology is that it makes those containers irrelevant. Books, CDs, filmstrips — whatever — don't need to exist anymore in order to get ideas out. So whereas we thought we had been in the wine business, suddenly we realized that all along we've been in the… 
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