Digital ‘history machines’ are never politically neutral
By Dr Natalia Grincheva Published on January 29, 2024 The idea of creating a ‘universal library’ which contains the entirety of all the human knowledge and heritage has inspired the imaginations of the brightest minds of scholars and humanists since ancient times. A good example is the Library of Alexandria – the most famous library of classical antiquity in Egypt from the early 3rd century BC. It aspired to contain a copy of every book ever written or translated and its bibliography long remained a standard reference work until its destruction during a civil war in 48 BC.
