Robots digitizing libraries - New technology helps turn books into images. Now more than ever, we could share every bit of knowledge with the world. As this article says, imagine being able to make the entire contents of major libraries available - free, via the web - to even the smallest school in remote areas of Africa. Really, imagine what would be possible if distance, cost and even politics no longer prevented all people from accessing large bodies of knowledge? We have the technology. It's just copyright laws that hold it back. The seemingly eternal problem of how to appropriately compensate the original author/artist without preventing great deeds.

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