Online Archives, Creativity & Serendipity ~Rick Prelinger

“And from an archivist’s point of view, or a librarian’s point of view, when you put primary materials in the hands of ordinary citizens, really really interesting things can happen. History is no longer the provence of academics and intellectuals, definitions of culture begin to shift and change in very interesting ways and, as we know, questions of what is high culture and low culture often get inverted, or scrambled in ways that I think are tremendously productive.”

On Technology, Copyright, and Access

“What I think we need to do is to be a little more provisional about the kind of regimes we set up. In other words, we don’t build DRM that lasts for decades, that we don’t set rules for emerging technology that tend to cut off its potential from the very beginning, or if those rules exist then we don’t accept them.” ~ Prelinger

The Pataphysics of the Future

“Pataphysics will become ever more conscious as physics replaces metaphysics.”

A version I’d never heard before.