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Society & Reason

World Wide Web or Library of Babel?

Marco Nuzzaco wants us to see the net as something more than a library.

Safer Internet Day 2023 is 7th February. I anticipate that like last February, the internet will be teeming with meetings, webinars and talks to discuss issues related to cyberbullying, privacy, trolling, democracy, and freedom of speech.

No doubt all these issues are affecting more and more lives and experiences, both on- and off-line. These days we talk about the infosphere, a word used by Italian philosopher Luciano Floridi to describe the space of data and information in which we are all connected together, as well as our artefacts and devices. The infosphere is becoming increasingly populated, and we are increasingly dependent on the internet, a big chunk of said infosphere.

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