This presentation was provided by Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, during the NISO event "Owing, Licensing, and Sharing Digital Content." The virtual conference was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021.

1. Brewster Kahle
FOUNDER AND DIGITAL LIBRARIAN
INTERNET ARCHIVE
@brewster_kahle
brewster@archive.org

2. Memex from The Atlantic article (1945) Vannevar Bush

3. Ted Nelson’s Xanadu hyperlink System (1972), Literary Machines (1980)

5. We wanted the Library,
We wanted the Global Brain….
but we got….

6. Facebook

7. Business Model Problems

8. How are we doing on the Global Brain?
Our Brain has Alzheimer's
Our Brain is full of lies and
disinformation
Our Brain is running commercials
(ads) all the time.
Our Global Brain is diseased

9. So what do we do?

10. April 2020:
11 Million Wikipedia links
fixed by

13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

15. Wayback Machine before 1996…
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature + Microfilm

16. What’s more to go?
fight disinformation
biz model for publishers beyond ads
annotation systems that are spam resistant
integrated computation
institutional support

17. How can this happen?
Remember the Values of Libraries
Digital Ownership
Monopolies weaken us

18. Brewster Kahle
FOUNDER AND DIGITAL LIBRARIAN
INTERNET ARCHIVE
@brewster_kahle
brewster@archive.org