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http://www.ted.com Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … It’s all free to the public — unless someone else gets to it first.
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a lot of copyrights …
a lot of copyrights to obtain, internet access that would be needed, there is already wikipedia, pirate bay to download 20,000 books.
in the beginning of …
in the beginning of the video he said that he is a librarian.
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Okay, here’s a …
Okay, here’s a little topic for you geekheads:
Contrast the German and Italian approaches to books, printing, and librairies.
Technogeek can’t even grasp the question, let alone answer it.
And? What has that …
And? What has that got to do with this idiot’s program?
Nothing. In fact his proposal will make “books” and “knowledge” less accessible digitally.
The fuckhead does not even know what “books” are, nor libraries.
“In fact the old …
“In fact the old Soviets had a pastepot squad that continuously revised the Soviet Encyclopedia”
All Encyclopaedias are continuously revised. it is called keeping them up to date. Or is the use of a “pastepot” the problem here?
Digitizing books makes them accessible to more people. This is a good thing. Also digitized books means that they can be read by a computer making them accessible to even more people. Then of course there is the possibility of using meta data.
Okay, here;s a …
Okay, here;s a little topic for you geekheads:
Contrast the German and Italian approaches to books, printing, and librairies.
Technogeek can’t even grasp the question, let alone answer it.
“Knowledge” is not …
“Knowledge” is not a collection.
This geek is a living contradcition of what he is trying to sell you.
He is an ignorant fuckhead who pretends to know things he does not know.
He doesn’t know the ancient Greeks or Alexandria from a hole in the wall.
He doesn’t know books either.
And he knows …
And he knows about libraries.
He’s a technogeek pushing technological solutions for problems he invents.
mopsius He invented …
mopsius He invented Wide Area Information Servers amongst other things, and came up with the free archive of which he is the Director.
Your comment is not sensible.
Interesting stats:
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Interesting stats:
China 1 Million books scanned
India 300K books scanned
Egypt 30K books scanned
Yes, that is a …
Yes, that is a problem too. Traditional books disappear and digital ones are revised periodically.
In fact the old Soviets had a pastepot squad that continuously revised the Soviet Encyclopedia.
How much easier with digital.
Listen carefully to …
Listen carefully to what he actually says.
In fact, he doesn’t know enough to know what he means.
He should not be in charge of this project.
He will make a God-awful mess.
This sounds like a …
This sounds like a great idea in theory, but in reality it is a way to replace hard copy books with a “computer book”. Once this system is in place, and hard copy books are at a minimum, sensorship and control of knowlege will ensue along with a history of the books a person reads!
I’m pretty sure he …
I’m pretty sure he means all COLLECTED knowledge.
and you are a …
and you are a stupid troll. go away.
Read my comments …
Read my comments carefully, and think.
I am not against digitizing libraries.
That is not the point.
I think this is a …
I think this is a good idea.
Some books might have historic value that will not be understood until later. It’s going to be a small cost on the long run to do this anyways.
Though of course for non-historian, I’m betting web-based encyclopedias similar to wikipedia will be more practical.
A lot of books are …
A lot of books are trash, I am not sure if I support every book being scanned since it is most likely tax payer money doing this.
I do not understand …
I do not understand why you think this guy is an idiot?
“Universal access …
“Universal access to all knowledge is now within our grasp”
What a dumb shithead.
Dumb …
Dumb cokehead technogeeks.
This guy is a …
This guy is a messianic idiot.
This is, as stated, …
This is, as stated, a really dumb idea.
How about collecting all the books in the world on libraries.
Now what have you got. A worthless pile of that will take you a lifetime to peruse.
and after you preuse you will say–you just wasted nine hours of my time for one good hour.
Say you have an …
Say you have an access system for 100 million volumes.
You will be wasting ten more times the time than you would be with a well-chosen ten million.
And that is true even on a computer.
Only an idiot librarian who did not understand books would come up with a lunatic idea like this.