John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
The hopes of mass digitization
“It is time to
build… an America where every child can stretch a hand across a keyboard and reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed…”
-- US
President Bill Clinton, 1998 State of the Union address
“Our venture will result in a magnitude of discovery
that seems almost
incomprehensible…”
-- U-Michigan President Mary Sue
Coleman, 2006 speech to
Association of American Publishers, on the Google Book Search project