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Abelardo Morell/Bonni Benrubi GalleryReaders’ Opinions
Forum: Discuss with Kevin Kelly whether digital technology will replace the printed book.
Abelardo Morell/Bonni Benrubi GalleryIn several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page.
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The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present. All books, all documents, all conceptual works, in all languages. It is a familiar hope, in part because long ago we briefly built such a library. The great library at Alexandria, constructed around 300 B.C., was designed to hold all the scrolls circulating in the known world
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Sandra RiveraFor 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future.\n\nUntil now. When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected.
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Peggy GeorgeBut the technology that will bring us a planetary source of all written material will also, in the same gesture, transform the nature of what we now call the book and the libraries that hold them. The universal library and its "books" will be unlike any library or books we have known. When millions of books have been scanned and their texts are made available in a single database, search technology will enable us to grab and read any book ever written. Ideally, in such a complete library we should also be able to read any article ever written in any newspaper, magazine or journal. In short, the entire works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages, available to all people, all the time.
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Graham WegnerGoogle announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected.
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J. J. DiUbaldi'06May14 New York Times Magazine. Fascinating, long read about digitizing books, music, and more in the "universal library." See Digg for excerpts and Wikipedia: digital library.
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