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When the sum total of every song ever recorded is available--every version, every outtake, every subtle variation--the problem of acquisition becomes irrelevant, but the problem of selection becomes impossible. How will I decide what to listen to? And of course this is a global information problem not confined to music. How do I decide what film to watch, what book to read, what news to keep up with? The twenty-first century's information problem is one of selection.