Google has recently announced that it plans to digitize about twenty million books. At the current rates of digitizing the books it might take tens of years to get the job done. Mechanical methods are not particularly adept or quick to perform this job as it requires manual manipulation of the book. What is required is an economical source of intelligent manual labor to perform these routine tasks. There are probably several million capable people who are rejected from the workforce because of age or other disqualifications that would not bar them from performing this task of making the cultural wealth of humanity available to the whole world. Perhaps these people who are not otherwise occupied might be willing to contribute their time and skills in a massive effort to open up all cultures to the world and speed this effort to completion. If individuals with computers and scanners were willing to partake in this enterprise, the project might be accomplished in much less time.

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