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“What will happen if our labor is no longer needed? If jobs for warehouse workers, garbage collectors, doctors, lawyers, and journalists are displaced by technology?”
― John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

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“In a different era, Ignatius would have been terrific at the Internet. You can picture him tucked into his Constantinople Street bedroom with an empty case of root beer at his feet, crouched over a grungy, glowing laptop, posting screeds to his blog, adding pointed and overwrought comments below news articles.”
― Margaret Eby, South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature

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“From the vantage of the early twenty-first century, it might be more accurate to say, with no disrespect, that Arthur Conan Doyle originated Sherlock Holmes. The rest of us, obviously, aren’t yet finished creating him.”
― Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

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“One of the loudest voices to address this issue belonged to the American Library Association (ALA). Librarians felt duty-bound to try to stop Hitler from succeeding in his war of ideas against the United States. They had no intention of purging their shelves or watching their books burn, and they were not going to wait until war was declared to take action.”
― Molly Guptill Manning, When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II

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“But the main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing on many sources. Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt, or a lightbulb popping out of the head of a lone individual in a basement or garret or garage.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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Goodreads Librarians Group — 333314 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Loudoun County Public Library Staff — 1 member — last activity May 09, 2019 06:15AM
A place where staff from LCPL can share books they are reading and book suggestions with other LCPL staff members.

The Pulitzer Project — 51 members — last activity Feb 12, 2017 05:03PM
The idea is simple: to tackle the list of Pulitzer Prize winning literature one book at a time, by reading the winners of the years that match the las ...more

Newest Literary Fiction — 1338 members — last activity 3 hours, 50 min ago
Discover and share your discovery of the most recently published literary fiction. If you love reading novels before anyone else decides they are good ...more