Google and the World Brain

00:00:18 There is no practical obstacle whatever now

00:03:19 and made into a human intelligence.

00:06:17 Everyone needs information in this modern day and age.

00:09:13 It was possible to think in the Renaissance

00:12:47 that this was the opportunity of our generation

00:15:33 The idea of getting all that stuff online

00:19:15 so they could make money by having advertisements there.

00:25:26 Um... There's no such thing as a free lunch.

00:28:32 to places where you can buy the book.

00:31:57 that hasn't been filled out and made more rich and wondrous

00:35:56 Google is made of us

00:40:57 The problem that most authors have is obscurity.

00:43:50 anything that touches it, it's been copied.

00:47:59 on online access to copyrighted books.

00:50:42 which could really charge almost anything it wanted for access to it?

00:53:35 If people find that the privacy policies of a particular technology

00:56:51 that was a very different kind of game than chess.

00:59:20 the convoluted language in the Jeopardy! query

01:03:25 This tale is told during the story called The Trial.

01:12:31 There were 25 outside parties that

01:15:39 piracy cases in which the Internet and digital technology are abused.

01:19:28 They spent several months trying to negotiate a new settlement

01:23:38 They might involve government but they might involve the big companies

60:00:00 something like that.