Towards a Virtual Alexandria
December 13, 2003
This fall, a groundbreaking technology was quietly unveiled on the Internet. Visitors to Amazon.com can now search the entire contents of 120 thousand books, and view the pages with the corresponding text. Eventually, the online retail behemoth plans to extend its "Search-Inside-the-Book" feature to millions of its books. Wired Magazine contributing editor Gary Wolf talks to Bob about the enormous implications for publishing and research.
