The intronet archive's open library has about four million books in it. Two and a half million probably are public domain. They have huge collections like wax cylinder recordings. There is an emulators so that people can play video games from the eighties and nineties on modern computers. You can refer back to all kinds of old news programmes, like from a long time ago and more recently. And you can contextualize and search the incidents of terms,. because it's all been recorded in transcript form. So everything tha people are saying in the news has been like recorded in Transcript form.
Paris Marx is joined by Maria Bustillos to discuss the important work of the Internet Archive, why it opened a digital National Emergency Library during the pandemic, how access to culture is essential for the social good, and why the major publishers are trying to permanently restrict digital lending in a narrow-minded bid for short-term profit.
Maria Bustillos is the founding editor of Popula and Brick House. She recently wrote about the major publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive for The Nation. Find out more about Brick House and follow Maria on Twitter as @mariabustillos.
Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.
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