“Google is comin’ to town, doo da doo da doo”

Cortez writes “MIT’s “Technology Review” has a extensive article on the Googlization – I like that word to describe the sitiation – of the world’s major library collections:

“Whatever happens, transforming millions more books into bits is sure to change the habits of library patrons. What, then, will become of libraries themselves? Once the knowledge now trapped on the printed page moves onto the Web, where people can retrieve it from their homes, offices, and dorm rooms, ­libraries could turn into lonely caverns inhabited mainly by ­preservationists. Checking out a library book could become as anachronistic as using a pay phone, visiting a travel agent to book a flight, or sending a handwritten letter by post.””

April 14, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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