Humanity's knowledge is now ensured to be preserved for billions of years, in case a catastrophe destroys our civilization or our planet. Everything is protected in a library that is not even on Earth ...
Even more heartbreaking is the fact that several of Oronto’s other educational legacies have also slipped into desolation.
The bicentenary of a library founded in 1826 under governor Ralph Darling – books set against the dust of a penal outpost – ought to invite a measure of historical perspective. But at the State ...