Are We Approaching Cultural Saturation?

Introduction In the Paradox of Taste , I looked at novels as information-theoretic objects. One question I asked was: what if all novels that could ever exist were enumerated and indexed in the Library of Babel? The Library of Babel is gigantic. A back-of-the envelope calculation shows that there are roughly to grammatical-ish English strings of novel length 1 . Even is a superastronomical number.…