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Originally Posted by Zunaid
And you call that a meaningful response?
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Fine, I'll share a little story as well
The great Argentinian writer, Borges in the 1940s wrote this short story called the "Library of Babel" in which he imagined a library containing an infinite amount of books, each book containing a combination of 24 letters and 3 symbols with no book being exactly the same. As the letters in the books would mean different things in different languages and as there was an infinite combination of these books, it was speculated that the answer to 'the Universe and everything' was in one of these books. Not only that, but the guardians of the books, the librarians, theorized that in some book, somewhere in the library, in some language, their future must be written. At the same time, as the combination of the letters were completely random, they may find a completely false account of their future and still believe it to be true! It drove many of them insane and yet they could not stop searching.
In many ways, the internet, with its billions of websites, as harnessed through search engines like Google, bing, etc. are taking on the scope of such a Library of Babel. And in turn maybe, banglacricket with the addition of varied threads will start to do the same haha