Borges’s “The Library of Babel” presents the universe as a giant library, so large that it can’t be understood by anyone.  In a sense, I guess that this is also the internet.  So vast that no one person can understand or experience it all, and yet, in this case, the entire internet is at our disposal at any given moment.

With computers ant tablets and smart phones (oh my!) at our fingertips, and with search engines constantly available on any of these devices, each of us has such an expanded consciousness that we can’t comprehend our own abilities.  The universe is at our disposal, cheesy as that sounds, and our culture can either fear this potential or embrace it.

he line “It is true that the most ancient men, the first librarians, used a language quite different from the one we now speak,” is so accurate to us and those people who began the internet and computer usage.  The vast majority of us have no idea how to code, or how binary works; we couldn’t create a website without the strict guidelines of Google Sites or WordPress.  In one sense, how do we have any right to use and depend so heavily on something we don’t even begin to understand.

We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants, but right now we’re teetering, afraid to fall.  After all, we don’t know the bounds of the internet, so we don’t know the repercussions of things turning horribly wrong