The same day Bill Gates announced his retreat from Microsoft to dedicate himself to Gates' Foundation, Noam Cohan publiched a story in the New York Times and Clarin on Jorge Luis Borges as a possible percursor to the Internet.
Perla Sassón-Henry's book Borges 2.0: from Text to Virtual Worlds explores the relationship between decentralized Internet as YouTube, blogs and Wikipedia with Borges' texts from the early 1940s. And for that matter, the Spanish-linguistic Wikilengua launched two days ago. To Sassón-Henry, Borges is "someone from the old world with a futuristic vision", as her work Cy-borges on the same theme shows.
Borges' works Funes, el memorioso (1942), La Biblioteca de Babel (1941) and Tlön, Uqbar, Urbis Tertius (1940) were published under the English title Labyrinths in the 1960s. His infinite libraries, total memory and man who never forget, virtual encyclopedias and worlds, information and portals that embrace the whole planet, created a canon for everyone who find themselves in the intersection of new technology and literature.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
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