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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern

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Umberto Eco
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Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1932 to 2016; Wikidata Q12807, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12807 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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