HMID6303 Assignment 1 - Yeap

Chapter 2 :To Search and to Scan Web searching in the world of e-books From Curtis J. Bonk’s “ The World is Open ” Summarized by Yeap Hock Aun OUM-MIDT Penang, Malaysia. February 2010

[object Object],Network bandwidth , computer storage capacity , and processing speed have soared From teraflops to petaflops … do you have a supercomputer on your desk?

Supercomputer speed (measured in floating point operations per second or flops) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The convergence of bandwidth, storage, and processing speed has fueled the uploading of content onto the Web. ,[object Object],Storage Processing speed Online Content

Educators can now make more resources available online, and this leads to … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

As more and more information can be found and extracted quickly from the Web, memorizing information is now much less important than knowing how to access information. Elliot Masie calls this “ Fingertip knowledge ”.

Knowledge on the Web ,[object Object],[object Object]

Digitization ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

About to be “Google-ized” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Google’s Mission ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Redefining intelligence ,[object Object]

Learning = Access ,[object Object]

The Great Google Scanning Project @ Google Books ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Great Google Scanning Project @ Google Books ,[object Object],Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/google-books-adds-hand-scans/

Microsoft Live Search Books ,[object Object]

Open Content Alliance (OCA) ( http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ ) Provides access to scanned books and multimedia content. Its goal: to have a representative collection of the “creative output of humankind.”

The Open Library ( http://openlibrary.org/) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Global Text Project ( http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu) ,[object Object],[object Object]

The One Million Book Project (http://www.ulib.org/) ,[object Object],[object Object]

“ Blowing Dandelions” ,[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ Blowing Dandelions”

“ Blowing Dandelions” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The end of the beginning … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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