Monday, September 22, 2008

How much of our world do we know? And how much CAN we know?

Is it possible to create a digital library where you give all the content away for free, asks Brewster Kahle in his TED talk. All sort of questions pop up, from technical, economic, logistical...can such a thing co-exist with the world of publishing?



Universal access to all knowledge of, by and to all of humankind.
For Free.
How many comparable achievements throughout human history can you think of ?


I came across the other great video I saw today through reddit. Richard Dawkins, in a 2006 TED presentation, talks about the wonders of the world we live in. Much of it is about things that almost any student of science has wondered about in their twenties, but nonetheless it's a lot of fun to hear him put it all together.


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