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Robo-Scanning Libraries
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Robo-Scanning Libraries

The NY Times has a very interesting article about the libraries of the future -- In Remote Library Stacks, an All-Seeing, Scanning Robot. Under the realisation that there's so much information that's not in digital form, any thorough research will often involve a trip to the library. The Digital Knowledge Center intends to automate the search process, by getting robots to move around the library for you.

I was discussing this earlier in the week, and the conclusion was that the research phase is soon going to disappear. Taking this technology a step further, everything will be indexed; no need for physical media. Then, Google 2023 will be able to tell you exactly what dissertations, papers and books are relevant to your research (possibly even rating their importance); one can but dream...

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Thursday 04 July, 19:04
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