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1 Internet Research

2 Outrageous goals are now Reachable Google's mission: Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Brewster Kahle of Internet Archive says it this way:

3 The Goal Universal Access to all Human Knowledge

4 Vannevar Bush, 1945 If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

5 Dream Douglas EngelbartDouglas Engelbart: 'I confess that I am a dreamer. Someone once called me "just a dreamer." That offended me, the "just" part; being a real dreamer is hard work. It really gets hard when you start believing your dreams.

6 Ted Nelson His Four Maxims: 'Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, god does not exist, and everything is wrong.'

7 Incredible Advances (Stone Age) Ebay Amazon Google’s Page Rank Internet Archive’s Wayback MachineWayback Machine Peer-to-Peer

8 Recent Incredibles Grid Computing,e.g., SETI@HOMESETI@HOME

9 Web Services and Software Agents Google API Amazon API

10 Image and Video Search Google's Image Search Yahoo's Video Search

11 Everything On-Line Research papers: Google ScholarGoogle Scholar Books: –Amazon's Search Inside This BookSearch Inside This Book –Amazon’s citationsAmazon’s citations –Google's plan to scan all booksGoogle's plan to scan all books

12 Collaborative Systems and Social Computing Blogs Wikis

13 Internet Democracy The World Live Web Howard Dean’s Campaign

14 Personalized Search Google Personalized SearchGoogle Personalized Search

15 Semantic Web

16 Do you have a garage?


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