really track what happens to the 10 per cent of the 
information that goes through computer viruses 
or is floating or in transfer? Can anyone explain 
why libraries now need something like 25 per cent 
of their permanent budgets to account for 
automation, and what that automation will do to 
the nature of knowledge? I think McLuhan would 
have loved that kind of creative playpen, where he 
had a world in flux to constantly analyze. The 
static world soon became boring for him. But a 
dynamic world, such as the one we live in now, 
where technology replaces itself, where there will 
be more new technologies probably in our lifetime 
than in the lifetimes of all of our ancestors, if you