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Project Panama: A Fahrenheit 451 for the age of AI

Major global tech firms are acquiring physical books, digitizing their contents, and discarding the remnants.

The Business Standard ยท 21 August 2026, 11:30 PM

Some of the world's most prominent technology companies are currently engaged in a process of acquiring physical books, dismantling them, and digitizing their contents. Once the digitization process is complete, the remaining physical copies are being discarded.