Abstract
Nearly a decade ago, in Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, MIT professor Janet H. Murray presented her vision of the future for the newly burgeoning World Wide Web. She dreamed of a single comprehensive global library of paintings, films, books, newspapers, television programs, and databases, a library that would be accessible from any point on the globe. Gauged by her level of enthusiasm, it was as if she anticipated a modern library of Alexandria to materialize in the infinite expanses of cyberspace.