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Well it looks like Neal Stephenson was right when he wrote Snow Crash. The merging has indeed begun, but it may end up having the Google name. Next up will be the Library of Congress, the CIA, NSA, etc. It actually makes sense being as they are all in the information gathering and data mining business. I wonder how long it will be before full fledged gargoyles start walking among us.
posted by Lucky Bob at
11:02 AM
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We already have baby gargoyles--all these little adapters you plug into your ear and then wander about talking to no one like a homeless crazy person. It's coming, soon.
The Library of Congress on Google will take a while--witness the lawsuits over Google Books. What amazes me is Google Books only wants to print a couple lines of text from a book, not the whole thing (until it enters the public domain, of course), which should really increase publicity of a book rather than decreasing sales, but the publishing industry is just running scared from everything these days (hard to blame them, really, though they need to calm down). Still, this is pretty big news.
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Unknown, at 2/27/2006 10:36 PM
The other and most impressive thing from the Google Library project is the ability to search the contents of the Library of Congress. Not just in title, but the contents of all the books. I can only imagine the value of being able to search the contents of all the books to find both exactly what you wanted as well as other related and corresponding texts. But that would of course require the texts be scanned and a couple lines of text displayed on a users screen. OH MY GOD!!!! It's teh ruination of an American institution. And don't forget that it helps the terrorists.
damn.
I'm just ready for a lot of this crap to sort itself out and get on with it. Unfortunately, with some of the new proposed legistlation (namely that the broadcasters want to become Co-copywright holders onb anything they broadcast for a period of 50 YEARS!! Hope that dies quickly) I think that there is a lot of "I'll just take my ball and go home" instead of any kind of meaningful insight into what and why the marketplace is changing.
If Apple can make an Ass-Ton of money selling a product that the RIAA wishes never existed. Check that, the RIAA wish they thought of it first, that way THEY would be making more money. And not some other company, I mean it's all for the artists....
right?
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Anonymous, at 2/28/2006 10:04 AM
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