What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Great British Library Hack
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation's researchers, scholars, students, and bookworms were left high and dry. Months later, the library is starting to come back online in limited capacity, but the attack has laid bare just how fragile our digital systems are.
Guest: Sam Knight, staff writer at the New Yorker
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| 1:07.0 | Sam Knight is a staff writer at the New Yorker and he's got some pretty strong |
| 1:15.0 | feelings about the British library. You know, let's be sort of like personal |
| 1:19.8 | from the get-go. It's just one of my favorite places right? The British Library isn't like |
| 1:26.1 | your normal neighborhood library. Picture the New York Public Library but then go |
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