Google and the World Brain Page #2
And it seemed to me
that it had a lot of plausibility.
And so, we decided to...
to give it a try.
Every great library did digitising,
sometimes on a large scale,
our Open Collections Programme
digitised 2.3 million pages.
I mean, that's big.
But nothing like as big
as what Google attempted to do.
The sheer ambition
of digitising everything.
In the ancient world,
at the Library of Alexandria,
they copied rolls and tablets,
and attempted to copy
all that was known.
And, eventually, the library
was destroyed by Julius Caesar
and the loss of that library
in Alexandria
was an international catastrophe.
The universal library's been
talked about for millennia.
There's a kind of a continuity
of development
and, you know, we mustn't forget
the important role
that libraries and scholars
have always made
for millennia of copying.
And then, you see,
with the development of printing,
the multiplicity of texts,
the copying of original texts.
It was possible to think
in the Renaissance
that you might be able to amass
the whole of published knowledge
in a single room
or a single institution.
Then, in the 19th century,
you have various suggestions
in France and Belgium
that you can create
a catalogue of everything.
What will come next is microfilm.
And so, you start finding
huge microfilming projects.
And so, for us, the Google Project
was a sort of a natural extension
of that process of development.
Project Gutenberg, Michael Hart,
was the first digital library.
He started on the fourth of July,
in early 1970s,
by going and typing
the Declaration of Independence
so that everybody
could have access to it.
Thousands of volunteers worked
from all over the world
to go and build this.
He even had the idea
that it ought to be possible
to download the entire library that
he had created if you wanted that.
And I think it did act as a kind
of example of something
that, later on, Google and others
took up in a much bigger,
more extensive way.
My name is Raymond Kurzweil
and I'm from Queens, New York.
'When I was 12, I became fascinated
with pattern recognition.'
And, as a young teenager,
I did a project to teach computers
how to recognise patterns in music.
I've built a computer
and, by feeding it certain
relationships and music,
I was able to write music with it.
Raymond, how old are you? I'm 17.
Do your parents know
what you've been up to?
LAUGHTER:
Recognising printed letters
was a classical unsolved problem
in the field of pattern recognition.
And so, I created the first
omni-font optical character
recognition.
This was about 1975.
1978, we developed
a commercial version.
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