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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

Libraries Are Better Than Google

Without the public libraries, i would not have been able to read as much as I did as a kid. If i hadn't been sent to the mitchell library as a schoolboy, i wouldn't have understood that history was this unmanageable quantity of data. It's such a great tragedy that the mackintosh library burnt down. Yes, libraries are better than gogle because libraries sought the material in a way that is honest, and gogle sorts it in a way that's designed to sell ads to you.

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