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Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)
Hi everybody. Well, this is the Library Information Technology Association, so I guess I ought to be talking about libraries, or information, or technology, or at least association.
It doesn't absolutely determine it; a lot of our technology is sheer accident , serendipity, the way the cards happened to fall, who got the lucky breaks, and, of course, the occasional eruption of genius, which tends to be positively unpredictable by its nature. Not only did I start out in libraries as that greedy devouring boy, but thanks to mindwarping science fictional yellow-covered literature, I have become a menace to Grover Cleveland's idea of peace and good order. ``We diligently inform ourselves and cover the continent with speaking wires.... we are getting buried alive under this avalanche of earthly impertinences... we... are willing to become mere sponges saturated from the stagnant goosepond of village gossip.''
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