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Probably not so much.
Mary Anne — (archived)

People who want to share their own information will still be able to do that.

People who want to read the news will still be able to do that too. They will just have to pay for the privilege, like buying the paper. And we all used to buy the paper.

With my librarian hat on, the libraries will continue to purchase subscriptions to electronic newspapers, magazines, and journals, as we do now, for as long as we can find the money. In PA right now, that's a question mark, but in other places, that access point, and the computers to use to access them, is still secure enough for people without subscriptions, without computers and without internet to have a little access.

Chances are, the only difference will be that we'll have to pay for what we use. The exchange of ideas will still be free. The citations to articles -- "I read in an article titled 'Polka Dots Are Back' [Fashion Weekly, vol. 20, is. 7 (July 2009), p. 57], that the US Treasury has eliminated polka dots from the background of the new one dollar bill" -- will be free. Reading the articles themselves: not free. But journalists have to feed their kids too.

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