"Libraries aren’t book-filled caves, they’re information dojos. When information was on scrolls, we filled them with scrolls. When information was on books, we filled them with books. Now information has evanesced and the primary question of information is access and navigation, so we fill libraries with navigators who care about key questions of access: privacy, intellectual freedom, censorship, and the ability to form groups that act on information. We live in the information age. The questions of how to regulate, share, create, improve and aggregate information are more vital now than they have ever been. A car is a blob of information-processing gear inside a ton and a half of lethal composites with a squishy human strapped inside it. There has never been a moment when people who agitate about information needed each other more."
― Cory Doctorow as interviewed by BCLA, from ‘Libraries Aren't Book-Filled Caves’: An Interview With Author and Activist Cory Doctorow
