Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world

http://www.ted.com Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[mars Cubed]

"In fact the old Soviets had a pastepot squad that continuously revised the Soviet Encyclopedia" All Encyclopaedias are continuously revised. it is called keeping them up to date. Or is the use of a "pastepot" the problem here? Digitizing books makes them accessible to more people. This is a good thing. Also digitized books means that they can be read by a computer making them accessible to even more people. Then of course there is the possibility of using meta data.

[alanbrit]

He's talking about webspace.

Webspace = Cost Money

If you put up your garage band online, and it gets popular (..Heavy Internet Traffic) You need more bandwidth, more space = which costs money. He's just saying if you need money, you'll have to sell your instruments (ie: loose your guitars or house).

[Allen Salzberg]

What is the status of this project?

[Pradip Limbu]

Arey tyo keti pindesori chowk ko mala haina... ka bata model bhayecha....

[SundanceVacations]

Yes. Make this happen!

[sucklingfatty]

democracy

[crudhousefull]

2 million of those 100 dollar laptops sold to date. It's alright, but depressing cause the aim was to get it to about 100 million by now I think.

[infinitehumanstupid]

Good idea... no more torrenting =D

[andre lecoz]

wait, what about porn?

[surfdudezuri]

children... >_> fuck children!