Borges: Inventor of the Internets

Noam Cohen writes in today's NYTimes, "The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges might seem an unlikely candidate for Man Who Discovered the Internet." Nevertheless, numerous contemporary commentators are seeing compelling connections between Borges's great Ficciones and various Web 2.0 developments, and his amazing writings seem to be garnering new interest from futurists and web theorists alike. The article's listing of specific arguments for the writings of "Cy-Borges" as prophetic is too good to miss.