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Y'all ought to read Rainbow's End, where a Google-alike is trying to OCR all written information to make it accessible online… while shredding the originals in
by runiq 3y ago
Y'all ought to read Rainbow's End, where a Google-alike is trying to OCR all written information to make it accessible online… while shredding the originals in the process. That book was prescient on so many levels.
Same with Accelerando.
- matkoniecz 3y ago> while shredding the originals in the process In-universe reason for that made no sense whatsoever and was nonsense. It was not even an evil organization (this would make sense) but OCR method as described was absurd and would not work.