Some Irresponsible Speculations on the Implications of Large Scale Digitization

There are a number of large scale digitization programs underway to convert a great deal of the published literature — scholarly and otherwise — to digital form. At the same time, at least for the scholarly literature, increasing amounts of material are being published digitally. In my talk, I'll briefly discuss some of these developments, and conclude with a series of speculations about the implications of having disciplinary literatures in digital form.