September 2, 2009

Stop Google Books: World literature is not just another dataset

The world is being digitized at a furious rate. Indeed, we are at an “inflection point,” Thompson says, after which the world will be fundamentally different. In the U.S., we have a long history of handing public resources over to private monopolists. Think railroads. Think mining. Think television. Think FCC spectrum auctions.

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