Could Google monopolize knowledge?
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more from Tech:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/CSM/story?id=5357748&page=1
Should a single company be left in charge of putting all of the world's books online?An impressive list of world-class libraries and book publishers don't seem to mind. In 2004, they signed on as partners with Google, the Internet search and advertising colossus based in Mountain View, Calif.
Yet some observers have strong concerns about Google Book Search and how the collected thinking of human history will be accessed in the future.
Those anxieties rose late last month when Microsoft announced that it was withdrawing from a rival book-scanning project headed by the nonprofit Internet Archive (archive.org).
Internet access to books is becoming more important, some observers say, as portable book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, become more common and as more people expect to find all their reading needs online.
"I wouldn't say Google is 100 percent of the digital book world, but it's getting near 90 percent," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia, who writes a blog called "The Googlization of Everything."
(ABC News)
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gentjim
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when traveling at the speed of light ,one musent be twitchy.
we must excelerate the creative ,culture this will do that.
- 1 year ago
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gentjim
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NoGodsNoMasters
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Who the hell actually reads books offline though? Have you ever tried reading a full book off your screen? Your eyes feel like they are going to fall out of your head and you see spots. But hey, if Google wants to use their intelligence to help spread knowledge I say more power to them. Knowledge needs all the help it can get.
- 1 year ago
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aquamammal
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What is the worst that can come of this?
We still have normal paper books, and digitizing books will never be monopolized as long as the internet remains neutral and we can torrent stuff.
But the latter point is currently under serious attack.
XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.
- 1 year ago
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aquamammal
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LindseyIndigo
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Could google monopolize knowledge? Yes, quite possibly. I don't imagine its putting books online out of the goodness of its corporate heart.
- 1 year ago
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LindseyIndigo
