I am continually amazed, every day, at the reach and spread of the LibraryBox Project. This tweet from today took my breath away:
This year the grave is equipped with 5 solar panels and 2wifi hotspots. (One linked to a #librarybox) #1984Symposium pic.twitter.com/M6BgZ6iUcL— Christian Payne (@Documentally) June 25, 2014
It refers to the 1984 Symposium, a group of people who gather every year on the anniversary of Orwell’s death, to honor him and discuss the ideas contained within 1984 by picnicking at his gravesite. That there is a small piece of me there in the form of a box that helps to make information that much more open and free…I’m so very, very pleased by this.