What he's talking about actually seems like a sort of inevitability (which still hasn't happened yet, but will): it's basically the (technocratic, top-down) Dewey Decimal "filing" standard, but where each library has a copy of every book (and other media), instead of having to request inter-library loans.
Soon enough, it won't make much sense to talk about "what's available at your local library branch", instead thinking about "what's available in The Library."
Of course, most things will only be available to be borrowed digitally, but that's not usually a problem if you had a need for the information rather than a desire for the aesthetic experience of reading.
(And hopefully that will include useful [e.g. 3D when necessary] digitizations of all the old documents and artefacts that are currently housed, for their own protection, in nobody-can-look-at-them archives within libraries.)
Soon enough, it won't make much sense to talk about "what's available at your local library branch", instead thinking about "what's available in The Library."
Of course, most things will only be available to be borrowed digitally, but that's not usually a problem if you had a need for the information rather than a desire for the aesthetic experience of reading.
(And hopefully that will include useful [e.g. 3D when necessary] digitizations of all the old documents and artefacts that are currently housed, for their own protection, in nobody-can-look-at-them archives within libraries.)