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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