83-year-old short story portends bleak future for the internet

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83-year-old short story portends bleak future for the internet

February 2025

Roger J Kreuz

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 12:00 AM

Internet Disinformation CR Alicja Nowakowska on iStock

In Jorge Luis Borges’ imaginary, endlessly expansive library of content, finding something meaningful is like finding a needle in a haystack [Image: Alicja Nowakowskaon iStock]

Fifty years before the architecture for the web was created, and cuts to fact checking were making news, Argentine short story writer and essayist Jorge Luis Borges had already imagined an analogue equivalent, writes Roger J Kreuz

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