Introduction

We hear it every day, on television, on the radio, at the grocery store, and at the movies—that our world is getting smaller. We can be anywhere in the world within a day, by jumping on a plane, and with Skype, Google Hangouts, or Apple’s FaceTime we can talk face to face to almost anyone in the world with broadband in the time it takes to turn on the computer or other mobile device. We can get any book, magazine, journal article, movie, television show, or newspaper going back more than a hundred years, and we have essentially limitless, immediate access to all of the publicly available recorded information from the beginning of modern record keeping.

Almost any and all information that we could possibly ever need or want is available ...

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