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The great digitization : and the quest to know everything

Autor: Lucien X Polastron
Editorial: Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, 2009.
Edición/Formato:  Libro : Inglés (eng) : 1st U.S. edVer todas las ediciones y todos los formatos
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From the Publisher: TECHNOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY. The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations. Yet this new technology has awakened perils as dangerous as those that reduced libraries to ashes in ancient Alexandria and modern Nazi Germany. The very force that makes it possible for books to reach a global audience also  Leer más
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Tipo de documento: Libro/Texto
Todos autores / colaboradores: Lucien X Polastron
ISBN: 9781594772436 1594772436
Número OCLC: 264023186
Descripción: ix, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
Contenido: Introduction: finding information or funding a national library? --
Bnf versus BNF --
For Wells is not the plural of Orwell --
Geneva : world capital --
Quick, quick --
Volutes --
A digital coronary --
When the book is too highly concentrated, the purpose it serves is easily forgotten --
The pixel coming to paper's aid --
Is this already the post-Google era? --
But why the devil do we need libraries? --
Concordant and discordant clues --
The big picture --
First trials --
Burning stakes --
Advent Eve --
Muta solitudo --
An all-horizons inventory --
The future at the portal --
Tomorrow's readers --
Last books! Last books! Closing time! --
Paper leaves by the door and comes back through the window --
Library, arise! --
Striped uniforms --
Shrouds --
Purse strings and police cordons --
Smocks --
Against the grain.
Otros títulos: Grande numérisation.
Responsabilidad: Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham.
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The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything examines the pitfalls and promises offered by the digitization of books. Author Lucien Polastron reveals the danger digitized books pose to the  Leer más

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"Polastron's work inspires human beings to realize how digitization is creating a revolution of information that is arguably more widespread than the one set off by Gutenberg's printing press. It is Leer más

 
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