https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/million-book-project-flawed/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/million-book-project-flawed/#comment-964 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/million-book-project-flawed/#comment-964 You want a supercomputer and you get an abacus.From a historical perspective, the digitization of the world’s information is taking place at an amazing rate. Tools to search, catalog, and analyze that information are also being developed and deployed at equally amazing rates. For over a century the Dewey Decimal system was the state of the art in information cataloging. For centuries prior to that, libraries of information were limited to wealthy collectors and a few institutions of learning.I grew up with the Jetsons. I want that future NOW…not the IE crippled and corrupted version that Microsoft has created. In my saner moments though, I can still be amazed at how far we have come and how quickly we are moving.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/million-book-project-flawed/#comment-963 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:47:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/million-book-project-flawed/#comment-963 Uffda! Indeed! Micro$oft/Microsquish. I get sooooo sick and tired of these kinds of Web sites that insist on slurping the MS cool-aid and insist that we do so as well. Isn’t this a Web sight that is supposed to be for everyone — including those of us who would dare to use software and platforms that are not Micro$oft?

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