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The Optimized Future

By Pamela Philip ⋅ October 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

If I were to walk up to a person on the street and ask them what’s ‘Google’, they would undoubtedly look at me as if I had just asked them what is a toaster? And yet we are taking many such things for granted. In the modern age of interconnectedness the idea of information being [...]

Archiving the world’s literature

By Kunalan ⋅ September 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

As I was driving the road, I listened with intent a news article on the BBC World Service about Google looking to archive “millions of books” in a massive project to digitise and archive content for the internet. My first reaction was WOW! This is fantastic. We can now access the classics, the obscure, the out [...]

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