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ultimately scan all books
and all printed material.
'When automobiles came along first,
a rich man's monopoly.
'They cost upward
of a thousand pounds.
'Henry Ford altered all that.
'He put the poor man on the road.
'We want a Henry Ford today
'to modernise the distribution
of knowledge,
'make good knowledge cheap and easy,
'in this still very ignorant,
ill-educated,
'ill-served English-speaking world
of ours,
'which might be the greatest power
on Earth for the good of mankind.'
We started the Internet Archive
in 1996.
The idea was to have all
the published works of humankind
available to everybody,
that this was the opportunity
of our generation,
that...like the previous generation
had put a man on the moon.
completely open with Google.
In fact, I'd gone and given
a speech that was attended
by, I think, all of the senior
executives
on how one could go about
building a digital library
of all books, music, video,
and I'd hoped that there was going
to be a way to work with them,
but that was not to be.
Libraries had signed secret
agreements with Google...
We didn't know what
as a completely separate project,
and not working with others,
then, I started
to become suspicious.
Larry Page,
first proposed that we digitise
when we were a fledgling start-up.
Five years later, in 2004,
Google Books was born.
Despite a number of important
digitisation efforts to date,
none have been at a comparable scale,
simply because no-one else has chosen
to invest the requisite resources.
If Google Books is successful,
others will follow.
I don't think that Google is aware
of the fact that it's a corporation.
of itself as an NGO
that just happens
to make a lot of money.
And they think of themselves
as social reformers
who just happen to have their stock
traded on stock exchanges
and who just happen to have
investors and shareholders,
but they do think of themselves
as ultimately being in the business
There are few more irreparable
property losses
than vanished books.
Nature, politics and war
have always been
the mortal enemies of written works.
Most recently, Hurricane Katrina
dealt a blow
to the libraries of the Gulf Coast.
At Tulane University, the main
library sat in nine feet of water.
In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge regime,
in Cambodia,
decimated cultural institutions
throughout the country.
Khmer Rouge fighters took over
the National Library
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