From: Joe Jenkins (joe_jenkins@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 24 1998 - 11:30:31 MDT
This is Just a thought for increasing extropy. If there was a general
purpose book scanner that was a consumer PC peripheral (<$400) imagine
how many years earlier we would see the singularity. Lay your book
face down on on page 1 on the scanner bed, clip the front and back
cover, go to bed. Expect an explosion of World knowledge available on
the web - even though mostly illegal. Maybe the big boys are not
interested in a product that might find itself as an enemy to all the
worlds publishing companies. The scanner part of this product could
be bought OEM cheap. The mechanical part could adopt technology from
document feeders of copy machines. Add a little (err: a lot) software
to existing OCR routines and wall-a. Wake up to your HTMLized book.
Hurry up y'all, I got my visa card ready.
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