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Great but is it a part of a grand plan?

By making books searchable, the means of selecting a book by or for a human being is automated. Let us identify and serve the purpose for which one looks for books and reads some of them.

Fundamentally, books consisting of text, drawings, maps and pictures serve the purpose of creating and or recording information by human beings (authors) for use by other human beings (information seekers). Books have served the purpose of creating and sharing knowledge eminently, so far. Yet, inherently the printed book is an asymmetrical medium that separates authors and information seekers in time and space.

Now, we have Computers and Internet ?a symmetrical medium to create, carry and communicate information, the non-material stuff of books. And what is more, that information can be acted upon with or without human participation to serve millions of humans collectively or selectively, without the limitations of time and space.

What we can do now may be limited but let that be a planned part of a grand, superior possibility, not too far in the future.

Posted by: pvn   Posted on: 12/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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