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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
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This is one of my favorites from this excellent book. Here's the problem (and it may sound familiar): how can you scan the entire contents of a library?
In this excerpt, Robert walks into a university library, expecting to see the usual stacks.
Once the entire book was photographed, sophisticated optical character recognition programs went to work, picking out the characters and words on each page. Finally, the machine's AI reconstructed each book and reconstituted every chapter.
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