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September 24, 2006

The Internet in 2020 or Ludditeapaloossa?

A great article from BBC News that talks about the future of the Net. It states that some predict that by 2020 there will be a possibly violent revolt against the Internet by neo-Luddites. Read all about it.

Internet's future in 2020 debated

There are more than a billion people online worldwide
The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology thinkers.
The Pew report on the future internet surveyed 742 experts in the fields of computing, politics and business.

More than half of respondents had a positive vision of the net's future but 46% had serious reservations.

Almost 60% said that a counter culture of Luddites would emerge, some resorting to violence. (MORE)

Read a summary of the Pew Report, The Future of the Internet II

Posted by anna at 7:33 PM | Comments (0)

September 6, 2006

Come out and play with hot books!

Sarah Long shared this information about a game that was developed by a student at UC-Berkley and has gained some popularity with millenials. It's a game called Hot Books and it was developed by a UC Berkeley student for a course last semester. Here is the direct link: http://hotbooks.nickreid.com/about.php

Looks like NYPL is picking up on this.
http://www.comeoutandplay.org/2006/08/01/hot-books/

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Google presents some news archives

It seems that Google is trying to be all things to all people. And here I thought libraries were the only ones to do that.
Look at this article from CNN Money.Com

Ye olde Google News: Stories from the 1700s
Under new service, users will be able to target specific dates or view coverage of an issue over time, although not all articles will be free to view.
September 6 2006: 6:13 AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- Google News is getting a sense of the past to balance out its relentless focus on the present.

Google Inc. (Charts) has added the ability to search through more than 200 years of historical newspaper archives alongside the latest contemporary information now available on Google News, the market-leading Web search firm said Tuesday.

"The goal of the service is to allow users to explore history as it unfolded," said Anurag Acharya, a top Google engineer who helped develop the news archive search. MORE

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