Wednesday, August 17, 2011

When Google Runs Out of Data to Exploit, What’s Next?


Publishing Perspectives

After digitizing all print and images, the Googles of the world may go after “oral property” — collective traditional knowledge that may not be written, but has commercial potential.
How will the communal nature of sacred texts and myths, songs and sagas, traditional medical and agricultural practices, knowledge systems that might explain the natural environment, and human psychology be changed when they are digitized and distributed through global channels?


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