Monday, September 15, 2008

TED Talk: A digital library, free to the world

Its about time that we have the literature in the world published online for all to see.

Its an interesting speech, but I can't wrap my brain around actually printing out these books and getting them back to good ol paper. I understand that reading on monitors can be quite harmful to your eyes, but I'd think that the way technology is leaping forward, we should see a better answer to that problem soon in the future. Though paperback is still perhaps the easiest to distribute...

Also, I recently spoke to my uncle about one of his projects at the University of Madison. He's working closely with Google on their book cataloging system: Google Book Search, still in Beta.

Anyways, here's the TED Talk:




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