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CONTROVERSY: GOOGLE tries converting every book ever written to digital... Developing...
Drudge ^ | 4 Jan 2009 | Drudge

Posted on 01/04/2009 6:21:35 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

CONTROVERSY: GOOGLE tries converting every book ever written to digital... Developing...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Reference
KEYWORDS: books; copyright; copywrite; drudge; google; gutenberg; pimpmyradioshow
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To: lainie

Thanks for the reply and the link.

I miss the Olden Days.


21 posted on 01/04/2009 8:10:32 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

What may be the real winner here, is if someone comes up with the means to “rapidly impress” the mind with the data found in books.

Think of it as eidetic memory that could then be intellectually digested at leisure. Think an iPod with hundreds of books in it, being fed into your mind at a regular rate.


22 posted on 01/04/2009 8:15:53 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: LiberConservative
http://books.google.com/books?id=6fPxErorqIIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ann+Coulter&lr=&ei=OJFhSYe0NITkygT40Zi9Bw
23 posted on 01/04/2009 8:57:23 PM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: LiberConservative

I am doing genealogical research now, and google has a lot of the late nineteeth century geneaologies and town histories on line.


24 posted on 01/04/2009 10:08:57 PM PST by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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To: LiberConservative

I am doing genealogical research now, and google has a lot of the late nineteeth century geneaologies and town histories on line.


25 posted on 01/04/2009 10:08:58 PM PST by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Drudge just now noticed this story? What next, a “LINDBURG BABY KIDNAPPED!” siren?


26 posted on 01/05/2009 6:58:39 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: driftdiver

Their purpose is a little bit more than nefarious tracking of who reads what. If the population ever becomes totally invested in reading their books, novels etc. from a PC, then Google becomes the master censor. Ideas are powerful, ideas that can be censored before they are related are not.


27 posted on 01/11/2009 3:26:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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