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Alberto Manguel: The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google
By Alberto Manguel, New York Times, 19 DEC 2004 The desire to know everything on earth and in heaven is so ancient that one of the earliest accounts of this ambition is already a cautionary tale. According to the 11th chapter of Genesis, after the Flood, the people of the earth journeyed east, to the land of Shinar, and decided to build a city and a tower that would reach the heavens. |
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