The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further -- universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable.
"Brewster Kahle" is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge, and digital library/digital librarian. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, the Internet Credit Union, Alexa Internet/Alexa and Thinking Machines and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.
More Brewster Kahle on Wikipedia.If a band posts restrictions as to what materials can be put on the archive, there is a self-appointed sense of making sure the that the band's wishes are observed.
Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.
We saw flash crowds occur for CNN.
If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be remembered as one of the great things humankind has ever done.
Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.
Virtual library that would be brought to you by different search systems.
More and more people are expecting access, and they are making do with what they can get easy access to. Let's make it so that they find great works rather than whatever just happens to be on the [Internet].
If we pull this off, then we'll have done something very worthwhile.
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