The Geometry of Infinity

Jorge Luis Borges imagined a library composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite, number of hexagonal galleries. In this library, every possible combination of letters exists.

"The Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense."

The Implication

If the library contains everything, it contains:

• The true history of your death.
• The translation of every book in all languages.
• The detailed history of the future.

But for every line of truth, there are leagues of senseless cacophony.

Information Overload

Borges wrote this in 1941, yet he perfectly predicted the Internet. We have access to "all" information, yet the struggle is not finding it—it's filtering the noise to find the signal.

We are the librarians, wandering the hexagons, searching for the Book of Life.