Connection Engines

摘要

In "scan this book!" — a may 14 manifesto published in The New York Times Magazine (infoworld .com/4215) — Wired's Kevin Kelly explores the copyright battle provoked by Google's ambition to digitize millions of library books. It's ultimately a clash of business models, he concludes. In a networked world, where copying is implicit in every transfer of information, copies lose their direct economic value but gain indirect value as "discovery tools" that attract attention, sponsorship, and subscription.