« Nous avons survécu, mais cela a anéanti la bibliothèque », confie Kahle, fondateur du projet, à Ars Technica. L'Archive n'a plus de poursuites en cours, mais elle sort exsangue d'un conflit qui lui a fait retirer plus d'un demi-million de livres de sa plateforme Open Library. Ces pertes marquent la fin d'un chapitre fondateur de la numérisation libre des savoirs.

Yaneer Bar-Yam, a complexity scientist and one of the founders of the World Health Network, summarized what the science now says about COVID infections, whether they appear mild or severe. Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles. An epidemic of shingles, for example, is now afflicting young Chinese adults who have just recovered from a bout with COVID.

At Replacement.AI, we believe that building AI tools to fix the world's most pressing challenges is an unprofitable waste of time. The problem we actually want to fix is humans themselves. Humans cry, smell, make mistakes and demand “time off”. They tell you things you don't want to hear. Worst of all, they're expensive.