On Exactitude in Science; Or, No, Full Digitization of Every Archive Is Not the Point

In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares published a short story called “Del Rigor en la Ciencia” (“On Exactitude in Science”) The story, which you can read in the original magazine context in which it was published on page 53 here , goes as follows In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the…