{"id":165,"date":"2005-11-22T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-11-22T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T18:45:12","slug":"twodimensional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Two-dimensional culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another great leap forward for two-dimensional culture, the U.S. Library of Congress is today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/21\/AR2005112101428.html\">proposing to build<\/a> a &#8220;World Digital Library&#8221; of scanned artifacts from around the globe. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the library&#8217;s top dog, James Billington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/21\/AR2005112101234.html\">writes<\/a>, &#8220;An American partnership in promoting such a project for UNESCO would show how we are helping other people recover distinctive elements of their cultures through a shared enterprise that may also help them discover more about the experience of our own and other free cultures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does our arrogance have no bounds? Long the world&#8217;s cultural bulldozer, we&#8217;re now appointing ourselves to lead the way in creating a digital simulation that, says Billington, &#8220;would create for other cultures the documentary record of their distinctive achievements.&#8221; It&#8217;s so real you can almost touch it! Needless to say, Google&#8217;s the primary funder of the effort. As the Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/22\/google_world_library\/\">puts it<\/a>: &#8220;All your cultures are belong to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another great leap forward for two-dimensional culture, the U.S. Library of Congress is today proposing to build a &#8220;World Digital Library&#8221; of scanned artifacts from around the globe. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the library&#8217;s top dog, James Billington, writes, &#8220;An American partnership in promoting such a project for UNESCO would show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}