Fans of Jorge Luis Borges will want to read this fascinating story from Sunday's Times on how the Argentinian author's writings strangely prophesied the Internet:
Among the scores of Borges stories, a core group - including 'Funes the Memorious,' 'The Library of Babel' and 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' - first appeared in the United States as 'Labyrinths' in the early 1960s. With their infinite libraries and unforgetting men, collaborative encyclopedias and virtual worlds conjured up from the printed page and portals that watch over the entire planet, these stories (along with a few others like 'The Aleph') have become a canon for those at the intersection of new technology and literature.
Funnily enough, I re-read "The Library of Babel," one of my favorite Borges' stories, after finishing Jonathan V. Last's recent cover story on Google library. For those of you who haven't discovered Borges yet, you are in for a treat. The place to start is the Collected Fictions.