Of course, the point of the story was not universal accessibility but the decisions made by people confronted by this incredible randomness (some burning whole shelves after finding one incomprehensible page, some frantically trying to protect the works, some looking for the book(s) that would contain the contents- but of course how to know if they're accurate?). In some ways, the Borges story stands as a testament to the massive shift we've undergone subsequently: infinite libraries (functionally) infinitely reproducible. At the same time, though it was still prescient- one of the main problem of our times is no longer (re)production but curation. It's no surprise then that Google is the behemoth that it is.