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George Dyson visits Google on the 60th

George Dyson visits Google on the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s proposal for a digital computer. A quote from a Googler โ€” “We are not scanning all those books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an AI.” โ€” highlights a quasi-philosophical question about Google Print…if a book is copied but nobody reads it, has it actually been copied? (Or something like that.)