The underlying issue, though, is whether the ultimate manifestation of "digitized knowledge" — all the world's books becoming, as Kevin Kelly of Wired put it, "a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas" — might be a facile and dangerous corruption of the intellectual process.
Google's projects, together with rival initiatives by Microsoft and Amazon, have elicited millenarian prophecies about the possibilities of digitized knowledge and the end of the book as we know it.
At another event the WAELC Working Group at Duke will lead a conversation about access to digitized knowledge at African universities, and plot future steps for addressing the inequitable exchange of knowledge between the Global South, and the Global North.
By digitizing knowledge about a product that is revealed only through experience, Honeywell can understand products and their use in ways previously unavailable, without using embedded sensors.
Digitizing processes and developing a central digital knowledge repository facilitate the sharing of information and expertise among departments.
5G will also enable the capture and digitizing "human knowledge" and "Smart automation" with artificial intelligence and machine learning connected into everything through the superfast 5G to response in real-time to needs, wants and events.
What happens when all those data centers, housing all that knowledge we digitized without a second thought, go dark?
Much like Maysee (profiled above), Link Knowledge digitizes information found on printed business cards, puts the data into context and stores it in the cloud for customers who can then access their data from anywhere they want.
As I opined when talking about Google Books yesterday, the fact that much of the world's knowledge is being digitized and made available for free is stupendously important, and an unmixed good.
"What was once central to corporations -- price, quality, and much of the left-brain, digitized analytical work associated with knowledge -- is fast being shipped off to lower-paid, highly trained Chinese and Indians, as well as Hungarians, Czechs, and Russians.
As Bloomberg's Bruce Nussbaum describes, "What was once central to corporations -- price, quality, and much of the left-brain, digitized analytical work associated with knowledge -- is fast being shipped off to lower-paid, highly trained Chinese and Indians, as well as Hungarians, Czechs, and Russians.
