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"What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger."
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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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