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"The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present. All books, all documents, all conceptual works, in all languages. It is a familiar hope, in part because long ago we briefly built such a library.
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As long as by "in one place" he means "not all in one place", I'm all for it. Everyone wants to plant their own flag of fame in the sand, but that doesn't work in today's environment.
Look how miserably a place like Sourceforge failed, for example. When Sourceforge is down (estimates are 40% of the time now), thousands of projects become inaccessible to millions of users.
Provide one "virtual" place to obtain the information, one place where users are used to seeing it and go to get it, but virtualize it on the back-end, mirror it transparently across many countries and platforms, so it never becomes
inaccessible to those users. Adding more servers in the same physical location doesn't help, it needs to be spread across countries and other physical locations.
The key here is delegation of the information to thousands of external parties, not control of the information in one place.