"Alan [Lomax] was doubly utopian, in that he was imagining something like the Internet based on the fact he had all this data and a set of parameters he thought of as predictive. But he was also saying that the whole world can have all this data too, and it can be done in such a way that you can take it home."

— John Szwed [The New York Times: Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital] (via totalvibration)