Libraries are an odd artifact of history. They exist today because they are an undeniable public good. If they didn't already exist they would never be allowe

Libraries are an odd artifact of history. They exist today because they are an undeniable public good. If they didn't already exist they would never be allowed to come to exist in today's world. It would be considered wholesale IP theft and people would be arguing that the very notion of the idea would be the death of creativity. Many of the problems of smartphones are not intrinsic to the technology but are a reflection of that modern world. Many people would call that late stage capitalism, but without much of that capitalism the technology wouldn't exist. This has turned into a ramble, I apologize.