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Buy print encyclopedias.

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The issue reaches beyond copyright. When books are treated only as raw material for extraction, we lose sight of what a book is: a physical act of attention, memory, labor, and relation across time.

Technological development does not have to mean cultural disposability. The question is whether our systems can become more intelligent without becoming less reverent toward the conditions from which intelligence grows.

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