Rebirthing All the World's Knolwedge

Many histories recount the tragic loss of the legendary Library of Alexandria. In the centuries that followed, humankind has labored to recreate the great lost repository of culture, wisdom, and knowing. Unfortunately, the dream of a universal pool of wisdom has never been realized.

Not for lack of effort. From medieval scribes laboring over scrolls to insomniac Wikipedia contributors, thinkers and scholars have recorded what they could. But no database can ever overcome the biases of its storage medium. If it cannot be written, a library of paper cannot know it. If it cannot be computed, a digital repository cannot store it. The reference architecture of a new Alexandrian database must be at least as complex as the wisdom it attempts to store.

Can this be done? Indeed it can.

In the Umbra.