When the Program Becomes the Author: A Librarian’s View from the Threshold

Abstract

I watched Tron: Ares not long ago, a film about a digital program that was engineered to
comply—and chose instead to author. Ares crosses the boundary between its computational
world and ours and in doing so becomes something its creators did not design:
not a tool but an agent with its own logic, its own purposes, and its own claim on what
is real. I found myself thinking less about the film and more about my library