Educational experience, to say the least! Reminds me of when people found out Google was driving every mile of street in the world, or manually scanning every b

Educational experience, to say the least! Reminds me of when people found out Google was driving every mile of street in the world, or manually scanning every book everywhere. "Today the Church has 220 data-gathering teams in forty-five countries that are making digital copies of new records. They are also converting 2.4 million microfilm records into a digital format. The LDS drove microfilm technology in the twentieth century, and today it is a leader in digital data storage. Its digital camera operators photograph records and get those images online within two days, and then an enormous army—that is to say, hundreds of thousands—of volunteers index the files and make them searchable. The Mormons were crowdsourcing long before the word was invented."