The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the…

Umberto Eco
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever. ✨ Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco (2011). This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, p.82, Random House
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