I envy young academics embarking on their careers in 2008. Only older generations, enshrouded in what will look to posterity like the second dark age of Western Civilization, can appreciate the luminosity of the new dawn into which those young scholars are sailing. What we are witnessing this year is the beginning of the greatest act of recovered memory in the history of our species. The next decade will be the age of the unimaginably vast archive. More particularly, the dynamic and usable archive. The archive, that is, which hurls its contents at you, rather than requiring laborious spadework.
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